People from across Otago reported a meteor yesterday between 7.30am and 8am.
James McKellar, of Dunedin, saw the meteor on his way to work on State Highway 1 from Taieri about 7.40am.
He said it looked like a "really lovely" green streak of light travelling through the sky.
"It was subtle, but quite pretty."
He said he called his father, Peter McKellar, who was a member of Fireballs Aotearoa, to tell him about it.
Mr McKellar said he did not think the meteor would have landed in New Zealand because it was too high in the sky as it passed over Otago and Canterbury.
He said meteors often started producing light about 100km above the ground.
They travelled at about 30km per second but slowed fairly quickly before going into "dark flight" and colliding with the ground.
Mr McKellar did not see the meteor himself and unfortunately the organisation’s cameras only operated through the night and would have shut down about 20 minutes before the meteor passed.
