Ring camera footage captured the Eta Aquarids meteor shower streaking across the sky in Peosta, Iowa.

Caused by debris from Halley's Comet, they zoomed across the sky in full view of Kurt Massimilla's doorbell camera, in the early hours of this morning (12), proving they are still active beyond the May 5 and 6 peak.

Massimilla, 56, a nurse, wasn't expecting to witness a cosmic spectacle when his Ring camera tripped at 12.34am.

Bizarrely his camera was actually tripped by a racoon on his porch.

"When one camera trips, all my other cameras start recording, so I looked at my basement door, which faces south, to where the full moon was, and I saw a streak going across the sky," he said."

"So I pulled up the video. I knew the Aquarids were happening the first couple of weeks in May here."

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which peaked in the early mornings of May 5 and 6 in 2025, is one of the year's most anticipated celestial events.

The shower is caused by Earth passing through debris left behind by Halley's Comet.

As these tiny particles enter the atmosphere at high speed, they burn up, creating the familiar shooting star that can light up the sky.

Although the peak had passed, elevated meteor activity continued for days afterward, making Massimilla's sighting on May 12 well within the shower's active window, which runs from April 19 to May 28.

The Eta Aquarids are best viewed from southern latitudes, but keen observers in the northern hemisphere can still catch bright meteors, especially in the pre-dawn hours when the radiant rises higher in the sky.

What made Massimilla's footage particularly striking was the presence of a nearly full moon, which can often wash out fainter meteors.

Yet, the meteor's brightness and the clear southern exposure allowed the camera to capture the meteor's contrail and its breakup as it entered the atmosphere.

"It was just a nice little contrail and breakup of the meteor into the atmosphere," Massimilla said. "So I thought it was pretty neat, pretty bright, especially with the full moon behind it."