A mysterious fireball was spotted whizzing over a volcano crater.
The webcam clip shows the smoking volcano at sunrise.
As a large plume of smoke drifts away from the crater, a bright flash of light is seen nipping across the brooding sky.
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The bizarre phenomenon was captured by monitoring cameras at the Popocatepetl Volcano in central Mexico.
Popocatepetl, located in the states of Puebla and Morelos, stands at an altitude of 17,802 feet (5,426 metres) and is one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.
The volcano is also the site of an alleged portal for alien spaceships.
However, the bright light was confirmed to be a meteor zipping across the sky at around 4.10am on 3 August.
The video was posted by Webcams of Mexico with the message: “A bright shooting star was captured this morning by a camera filming the Popocatepetl Volcano.”
One local said: “It’s from this year’s Perseids meteor shower.”
Mario wrote: “Wow, you called it a shooting star instead of a UFO, everything okay admin?”
Daniel commented: “There must be some truth in the stories that Popocatepetl is a magical and enchanted place with great mysticism…”
Mexican UFO expert Jaime Maussan, 70, has previously claimed that the volcano is being used as a portal by intergalactic aliens, as reported by What’s The Jam.
He said Popocatepetl acts as “a gateway between two __cpLocations in space-time that allows intergalactic travellers to enter one place from another”.
Maussan explained: “In 1996, the University of Bergen in Norway discovered that under the volcano there are magnetic storms necessary to be able to generate X-points – or regions of electron diffusion – that can be used to create a Dimensional Portal.”
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