Fire in the Sky

Meteor fireball lights up the sky over Pilbara, Western Australia

Peta Rasdien
PerthNow
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:28 UTC

© WA Police
Perth Observatory’s Matt Woods confirmed it was a meteor known as a bolide — French for missile. Appearing as a fireball in the sky, it was likely a space rock the size of a cricket ball or slightly larger plunging towards earth that burned up high in Earth’s atmosphere, before it could hit.

Two of Roebourne's finest have been left gobsmacked after their night on the beat was interrupted by a meteor.

Police bodycam vision captured the fireball lighting up the Pilbara sky, shocking the officers who were talking with a local at the time.

"Did you see that, did you see that?" says one.

"Oh wow! That was a big flash I thought that was a torch. Make a wish, quick, make a wish," says a female officer who has her back turned when the meteor first lights up the sky.

North Texas residents observe bright meteor fireball, boom reported

NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:50 UTC

North Texas residents took to social media Sunday night to discuss and share videos of a flash streaking across the sky.

Many people across Dallas-Fort Worth noted they saw a brilliant fireball about 8:57 p.m. Sunday. In fact, it was seen as far south as Austin, as far north as Oklahoma and as far east as Louisiana.

It streaked from the southwest to the northeast and exploded, evidently over Northeast Texas. One resident in Bonham said it "shook his house."

Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over Norway

Guardian News
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC

An 'unusually large' meteor briefly lit up southern Norway on Sunday, as it sped at up to 20km per second across the morning sky. Reports of sightings started at around 1am, with sightings of the phenomenon recorded as far north as Trondheim. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage

Meteor fireball over the south of Spain (July 24)

Meteoroides.net
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 19:27 UTC

On 24 July 2021, at about 0:00 h local time, a slow-moving fireball was spotted over Spain. This bolide was generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 75,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Ciudad Real (region of Castilla-La Mancha) and Jaén (Andalusia). It began over the south of Ciudad Real at an altitude of about 85 km, and ended over the province of Jaén at a height of around 34 km.

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 Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), La Sagra (Granada), Calar Alto (Almería), Cerro Negro (Sevilla), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Madrid (Jaime Izquierdo, Complutense University of Madrid). 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).

14 cameras record a meteor fireball over Brazil

Samira Avelar
climaaovivo.com
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:30 UTC

Live Weather Cameras recorded a meteor in Minas Gerais and São Paulo in the early hours of Monday (19).

(Translated by Google)

Large meteor fireball visible for 27 seconds over Puerto Rico

rcnradio.com
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:09 UTC

A large meteor was visible at 4.55 local time this Friday from almost all of Puerto Rico as reported by the Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC).

"Although most meteors are only visible for a few seconds, this event was significant since images that we managed to capture show that it was visible for 27 seconds, that is almost half a minute," said Eddie Irizarry, vice president of the SAC.

"It looked bigger and bigger, it didn't look like a common meteor," said Idaly Correa, who witnessed the spectacular sighting from the municipality of Guayanilla.

The SAC director clarified that despite the long duration of the meteor, it was not space debris, but a natural meteor, that is, a space rock disintegrating through the atmosphere.

Meteor fireball explodes in the sky over Brazil

climaaovivo.com
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:07 UTC

Live Climate Cameras and Bramon recorded a meteor in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia and Distrito Federal in the early hours of this Thursday (15).

(Translated by Google)

Meteor fireball spotted in Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil

Clima ao Vivo
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:55 UTC

Live Weather Cameras recorded a meteor in Minas Gerais and Goiás at dawn this Monday (12).

Meteor fireball explodes over Taiwan

Keoni Everington,
Taiwan News
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:52 UTC

Dozens of spectacular videos surfaced on social media Wednesday (July 7) after a meteor blasted through the atmosphere over Taiwan.

Shortly after 12:02 a.m. on Wednesday, the Lulin Observatory, located at the summit of Lulin Mountain in Nantou County's Xinyi Township, recorded a meteor erupting into a ball of fire as it burst through the atmosphere. Within a span of 50 seconds, the meteor could be seen streaking across the sky as it ignited into a series of explosions.

It flashed four times during its descent, with each ignition causing the fireball to grow bigger and brighter. After the fourth explosion, the extraterrestrial orb went dark and disappeared below the horizon.

Soon, residents of Taipei as well as Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung counties posted videos of the unusual atmospheric phenomenon. Some people reported hearing a sonic boom following each flash of light.

Two bright meteor fireballs blaze over Idaho within hours of each other

Sott.net
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:55 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 31 reports about a meteor fireball (event 3638-2021) seen over ID, MT, OR, UT, WA and WY on Sunday, July 4th 2021 around 04:45 UT.

This video was uploaded to the AMS website.

Credit: Korri Anderson.