TWO physicists were among those who saw a suspected meteor explode in the sky above Malvern.

Husband-and-wife Howard Wright and Maria Pavlidou, of Bosbury Road, witnessed the phenomenon at about 9.55am on Sunday.

Mr Wright said it was a "small brightly glowing object leaving a green-blue coloured streak of light behind it".

"As we watched it for a few seconds we saw it fragment into several pieces, each leaving a short streak of light.

"We were driving along Jamaica Road, heading towards Church Road, and the meteor appeared to our right above the houses on Lechmere Crescent that are nearest to Church Road.

"As my wife and I are both physicists, we were delighted to see such a spectacular event."

Businessman Ian Grizzell was driving along Spring Lane when he saw it. He said it looked silvery and was a spectacular sight.

"It was heading from south to north. When it got in line with North Hill, it burst into half-a-dozen pieces."

Stuart Robertson, who was going towards Madresfield, described it a blue and turquoise.

Bryan Pain, of Upper Howsell Road, saw it from his kitchen window. He said it was about 15,000ft in the air, had a bright silver head and shot through the sky from north to south leaving a white trail behind it.

"I just thought, what was that? It can't be an aeroplane because it was far, far too fast," he said. "I'm ex-RAF and it was faster than anything I've ever seen."

Meteors are small pieces of rock shooting through space that enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up. The typical meteor is little larger than a grain of sand. Pieces that reach the ground are called meteorites.