Newly released footage has revealed the moment a meteor exploded in the skies above southern and central Queensland on Monday night.

A number of Queenslanders contacted ABC Local Radio to say they saw what appeared to be a fireball streak across the sky about 8:30pm on Monday night.

Photographs of such events can be rare, but the meteor "fireball" was captured by the CCTV camera outside the Hyne Timber yard in Maryborough.

Hyne Timber spokeswoman Katie Fowden said a company safety advisor was interested in the story and examined the camera footage to see if he could find anything.

"He knew we had a camera pointed in that direction," she said.

After finding the footage, the company posted it on social media.

Ms Fowden said the footage he found was remarkably clear considering the timber yard was about 180 kilometres away from where the meteor fell to Earth.

"It's clearer than most other footage closer to the area, because it was clear skies over Maryborough."

She said the vision was potentially of interest to experts examining the fireball and that they had received a request for coordinates of the sighting from an amateur astronomy group.

Earlier this week, Astro Space News editor and publisher Dave Reneke told the ABC reports that some people heard an explosion backed his belief that it was a fireball.

"They're pretty rare, they're unusual sort of objects and they are a meteor," he said.

"These are moving at 30 to 60 kilometres a second when they pass through the atmosphere — they get very hot," Mr Reneke said.

"This could have been the size of a small suitcase, probably not much bigger I'd say.

"They build up pressure and heat inside and they simply explode."