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NASA has released footage of a mysterious bright object streaking across Earth just after midnight last night.

The enormous unidentified flying object (UFO) was tracked by five different NASA camera as it moved at 14,500 miles per hour over several American states before breaking up into pieces - and the space agency says it was travelling too slowly to be a meteor.

Ron M added: “I have seen many strange objects in the night sky but this thing is like nothing I have ever seen. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Kind of scared me for a minute though,” said eyewitness Ron M, posting to the American Meteor Society website

Sean E added: “It looked almost like a plane had exploded at first but then was clear it was something else.”

(Image: NASA)

The “slow” speed of the object makes it unlikely to be a meteor or fireball, according to the space agency, but it could be a piece of space debris - bits of old spacecraft, satellites and other man-made objects in orbit - re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

The baffling phenomenon comes just days after NASA allegedly cut the video feed from the International Space Station after spotting three UFOs.