The dashboard camera of a police car in the US has captured the spectacular sight of glowing ball of light hurtling across the night sky.

The streaking fireball was witnessed by baffled residents hundreds of kilometres away in the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on Wednesday evening.

US aviation officials were quick to point out that the bright light was ‘most likely’ a meteor and not a UFO as some people originally thought.

Texas resident Vicki Ramsey told the news website theeagle.com she was in her backyard checking on her dogs when she noticed a flying object out of the corner of her eye.

“When I first looked up, it was real bright and moving very slowly,” she said.

“It was a bright greenish-blue color and was a perfect circle. There was no trail at that time.”

“I’ve seen shooting stars and things like that frequently, but never anything like this,” Ramsey said. “I called my son and my mom and they thought I was losing my mind.”

Texas police chief Troy Hess captured the fireball blazing across the sky during a routine traffic stop, the Dallas Morning News reports.

The police department was flooded with calls soon after the night sky phenomenon.

“People thought it was a plane on fire or something,” Mr Hess said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Lynn Lunsford said the light could not have been a plane because pilots radioed air traffic control to report the mysterious sighting from the sky.

“Given that it was seen by a large number of people across so many miles makes it likely it was a meteor or a piece of space junk, but most likely a meteor,” she told the Austin American Statesman.

No traces of a meteor have been found.

(Source: news.ninemsn.com.au)