Multiple people have reported seeing a bright orange object moving across the Canterbury sky this evening.

Melody Love photographed the object over West Eyreton.

“We noticed it just after 5 and it looked like an electric orange streak in the sky,” she said.

Christchurch resident Robert Wells reported seeing what he described as an “awesome shooting star” moving towards the Port Hills.

“It was really low,” he told chrislynchmedia.com.

The sightings have not yet been officially identified or confirmed as a meteor.