Renault Clio is 'hit by a meteorite' in France - and the damage is out of this world!

A Renault Clio has reportedly been hit by a meteorite in France.

Firefighters were called to the car in Strasbourg, eastern France, early this morning and found the car with a 20-inch hole in the roof as well as a broken window.

Strasbourg emergency services are now investigating the possibility of a meteorite falling on the Renault Clio.

'Upon our arrival, we noticed a relatively large impact, with a diameter of approximately 50 centimeters, which passed through the roof, the underbody and the fuel tank of the vehicle,' local fire captain Matthieu Colobert told Metro. 

The investigation has so far revealed that there was no radioactivity, which is to be expected should it have been a meteorite as they only contain a small amount of radioactive material, similar to rocks on Earth.

While investigators said they couldn't find the suspected meteorite in the car, they added that they had a 'hunch' about a hazelnut-sized, lightweight and brown stone nearby.

Colobert said the impact of the crash could have been so strong the meteorite 'disintegrated'. 

Meteors can travel up to 160,000mph as they enter the atmosphere, with their speed dropping down significantly to about 200 to 400mph.

Nuclear physicist and meteorite expert Dr Tim Gregory said he is not convinced the rock will have stellar origins.

'I'm suspicious about the extraterrestrial claims. It would have to be quite a stone to make a hole that big,' he told Metro.

'Chemical tests will reveal if the small stone is a meteorite – if it's not, then it's a meteorwrong.'

Royal Observatory Greenwich's Dr Greg Brown said he was waiting on more data, but added that the meteorite theory wasn't 'impossible'.