This is the moment an unmanned Russian spaceship burned up over Dubai.

In video filmed on October 16 by Dublin-based IT professional Mikhail Pozdeyev from the Dubai Mall at the foot of the mega-tall Burj Khalifa skyscraper, a meteor-like object can be seen burning through the sky.

Pozdeyev writes: "My first thought that it was a plane, but shortly afterwards I doubted that as it was crossing the sky faster and leaving a glare - I told my wife that it must be a nuclear rocket.

"People around were also a bit shocked looking at this object crossing the sky. For a minute after the video, I seriously thought that we should expect a sound blast coming our way and see a mushroom-like cloud on the horizon, so I rushed to ask for the bill.

"Fortunately, none of this happened and later in the evening I have googled this and confirmed that it was a blunt angle meteor entering the atmosphere."

The Progress MS-07 had previously delivered supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

At first local government officials had said the object was a meteor, according to agency reports.

Pozdeyev was only able to see the remarkable event because his scheduled flight home to Dublin was cancelled due to Storm Ophelia.

He had been on his honeymoon with his wife in Mauritius making a connecting flight in Dubai when the flight got cancelled.

"Meteor" was passing through the Dubai night sky at a slow speed. You can see it was disintegrating on the way and debris of "meteor" lighting up. I thought that it's a nuclear attack or aliens arrival since it was at such slow speed and low angle.