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Meteor fireball over southern Spain on June 6

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This bright bolide was spotted from Spain on June 6, at 1:38 local time (equivalent to June 5 at 23:38 universal time). At the start of the video, the fireball has been sonified by for outreach purposes: its light was converted into sound by means of a new technique developed by Dr. Madiedo in the framework of the SMART survey.

The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 90,000 km/h. The fireball overflew Córdoba and Badajoz. It began at an altitude of about 102 km over Hinojosa del Duque (province of Córdoba), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 58 km over Zarza Capilla (province of Badajoz).

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 (Almería), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, Otura (Granada), and Mazagón (Huelva). The event has been analyzed by the team headed by Dr. Jose M. Madiedo (principal investigator of the SMART project), from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). Its code in the SWEMN database is: SWEMN20260605_233824.


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Meteor fireball over New Mexico and Colorado on June 5

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A KRQE News 13 viewer captured a stunning sight on camera.

Shauna Yazzie of Gamerco, New Mexico, sent video from her Ring doorbell around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, showing a bright streak falling through the sky.

People across northern New Mexico and Colorado also reported seeing the meteor.


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Meteor fireball over Italy on June 4

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We received 25 reports about a fireball seen over Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Lazio, Toscana and Umbria on Thursday, June 4th 2026 around 20:31 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over Hong Kong on June 5

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A Hong Kong resident captured a striking luminous object racing across the south‑western sky above Mong Kok at about 3.30am on 5th June, slicing through cloud before vanishing into the night. Responding to enquiries, the Hong Kong Observatory said the object's brightness, shape and high speed were consistent with a typical fireball meteor, though no formal sightings were logged.

Fireballs are unusually bright meteors. In astronomical terms, some define them as meteors brighter than magnitude −3 — a level that outshines Jupiter and even Venus — which explains why they stand out so vividly after dark.

Like ordinary meteors, fireballs occur when fragments of space debris plunge into Earth's atmosphere and glow through intense frictional heating. Their extra brilliance usually points to larger pieces of material, such as stony fragments or small asteroid shards, and they can burn for longer than standard shooting stars.

Colours seen during a fireball's passage arise from different chemical elements within the object — for example iron, nickel or sodium — each producing distinct spectral emissions at high temperatures. If a fireball is particularly large and skims the atmosphere at lower altitude, it may also be accompanied by audible phenomena.


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Meteor fireball over France and 5 other countries on June 2

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We received 300 reports about a fireball seen over Aargau, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Baden-Württemberg, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bayern, Bern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bretagne, Centre-Val de Loire, Esch-Uelzecht, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Hessen, Luxembourg, Noord-Brabant, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Norm on Tuesday, June 2nd 2026 around 20:29 UT.

For this event, we received 5 videos and one photo.


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Meteor fireball over Michigan, 7 other states and Ontario on June 2

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We received 242 reports about a fireball seen over IL, IN, KY, MI, NY, OH, Ontario, PA and WI on Tuesday, June 2nd 2026 around 02:42 UT.

For this event, we received 8 videos and 4 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Maine, New Brunswick and Québec on June 1

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We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over ME, New Brunswick and Québec on Monday, June 1st 2026 around 07:23 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.


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Meteor fireball over Italy and 2 other countries on May 31

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We received 30 reports about a fireball seen over Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Lombardia, Salzburg, Toscana, Umbria, Veneto and Zadarska županija on Sunday, May 31st 2026 around 21:05 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.


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Best of the Web: Power of meteor fireball explosion over the US on May 30 reached 300 tons of TNT — NASA

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An official at the authority says that the fireball broke up at a speed above 120,000 km per hour

The fireball causing the loud boom in the State of Massachusetts in the United States broke up at a speed above 120,000 km per hour, a NASA official told TASS.

"Current available information puts the fireball's speed at roughly 75,000 mph [120,700 km/h - TASS], and it appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles [64.3 km - TASS] above extreme northeast Massachusetts/southeast New Hampshire," the NASA official said. "The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud booms," the official noted.

This fireball "was a natural object and not a re-entry of space debris or a satellite," the official added.


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Meteor fireball caught on camera near Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico on May 28

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A bolide, or fireball, was captured on camera crossing the night sky on May 28, 2026, near the Popocatépetl volcano as the colossus emitted vapors and incandescent material. This astronomical event was visible from Mexico City and Pachuca around 9:00 p.m.

The moment was shared by the National Coordination of Civil Protection and the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred) through the social networks of Webcams de México , in a YouTube video and X (Twitter).

At precisely 8:54 PM , the meteor was captured crossing the sky near Don Goyo (Goyo's nickname ) and, seconds later, seemingly just before touching the ground, it vanished. The phenomenon was also seen south of Mexico City and in the area of ​​the Clock Monument in Pachuca, Hidalgo.


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