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Meteor heads straight for city in terrifying New Year's Eve clip

A stunning meteor was spotting zooming across the sky in the US, just hours before locals rung in the New Year, with an expert explaining why it happened

[The same thing can be seen in shooting stars]

The same thing can be seen in shooting stars(Image: EarthCam)

New year revellers were left stunned after a meteor was spotted darting across the sky just hours before 2026 arrived. Cutting over the famous Gateway Arch in Missouri, the glittering comet lit up the sky and left locals in shock.

The video was shared on X by the St. Louis Gateway Arch's social media account, who wrote: "HEY LOOK, its A meteor saying hi to the Gateway Arch on New Years Eve!" In the clip, a small white speck appears over one end of the arch before growing into a green blaze.

It comes after the 3I/ATLAS 'should not be streaming gas if comet' as 'controlled by aliens' theory grows.

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Locals were left shocked(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The viral video was captured on an Earth Cam situated at Malcolm Martin Memorial Park. According to meteorologist Angela Hutti told Fox News 2, the green spark was due to a meteor burning up.

The same thing can be seen in shooting stars.

She said: "There are different names based on where the object is at. When it is in space, it is called a meteoroid.

"As it enters Earths atmosphere and begins to burn, as seen in the video, it is a meteor. NASA says if it survives a trip in the atmosphere and strikes ground, it is then classified as a meteorite."

Viewers were stunned by the meteors seemingly perfect timing, as if it were one final interstellar treat before the New Year.

One user wrote: "One last hello from the universe before the calendar flips. Even the Arch showed up for New Years Eve."

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It was an exciting way to ring the new year in(Image: AFP/Getty Images)

In other news, a Harvard Professor who claims a comet is actually an 'alien spaceship' has presented more evidence that 3I/ATLAS is not just a rock hurtling through space. The consensus among the science community on the mysterious object is that it is a comet.

However, astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been suggesting it has the characteristics of an alien spaceship sent to probe our solar system. The Manhattan-sized object passed by Earth earlier this month.

Despite the 'alien spaceship' failing to make contact with Earth, Loeb still believes it could be a probe controlled by aliens. The Harvard boffin argued 3I/ATLAS's 'anti-tail' should not contain "streaming gas beyond a distance of 5,000 kilometers from the nucleus".

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