This video shows a striking bolide recorded from Spain on October 5, at 1:56 local time (equivalent to 23:56 universal time on October 4). It was as bright as the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 115,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia. It began at an altitude of about 111 km over the locality of Garaballa (province of Cuenca), moved southeast, and ended at a height of around 69 km over the locality of Teresa de Cofrentes (province of Valencia).
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Otura (Granada). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). Its code in the SWEMN database is: SWEMN20251004_235613.
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