Fire in the Sky
The meteor landed in Avaj in the province of Qazvin, Mohammad Ali Ahani, director of Qazvin Crisis Management Staff said, Mehr news agency reported July 31.
Also, there have been reports that some pieces of rock have hit areas in Eshtehard, Alborz Province, Arsalan Qasemi, governor of Boeen Zahra, county in Qazvin Province, said.
Another local governor of Takestan County, Qazvin Province, said that the area witnessed the passing of the meteor, but nowhere in the district under his supervision had been hit.
The bright object could be clearly seen from Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires. Other reports of the dazzling display came in from Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as neighboring Uruguay.
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Scientists at the La Hita complex say comet number 169P/NEAT, which flew over the central region of Castilla-La Mancha on Wednesday night and the early hours of Thursday morning burnt out in the sky 79 kilometres above ground over the town of Cañamares.
Shards of rock plummeted downwards at a speed of 80,000 kilometres per hour and broke up when they hit the earth's atmosphere in a violent impact that turned them into bright balls of fire.
This was first seen at 23.50hrs mainland Spain time above Portugal and, at 00.07hrs, the largest and fastest fragment impacted with the atmosphere above the province of Málaga on the south coast, creating a fireball as bright as the moon.

Martin Kessel captured the object as it flew over Weston Coyney in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Martin Kessel captured the object as it flew over Weston Coyney in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The former Newcastle-under-Lyme High School pupil has a camera set up to monitor the skies over Stoke-on-Trent - in the hope of capturing activity in the atmosphere and beyond.
And Martin was in luck, posting the video on his Youtube channel, where he described it as 'large, very bright meteor or fireball' which passed over at 2.02am.

"Last night at approx. 2.30 am this was seen. Cancun was brightened up. Many didn't believe what they were seeing. Today it's a hot topic. Meteorite?"
According to Tweeters, the sky became inexplicably bright at approximately 2.00 a.m. on Sunday. Some added images to their posts, without specifying whether or not they had been taken during the sighting in question.
Comment: Actually, the Tweets seem quite specific about it. See below.

A strange streak of light flashes in the sky near the border between Vietnam and Laos on July 8, 2015.
As of Thursday afternoon, border guard forces still have not identified the cause of the phenomenon. An army representative has ruled out the possibility of an air crash. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief commander of Vietnam's army, said there has been no report of any issue with a civil or military flight in the area at the time.
Tuan said a piece of space debris could have burned up, causing the light and the explosion. Locals spotted the strange light flashing at around 9 p.m., then something fell and exploded. Curiosity caused heavy traffic jams stretching two kilometers along a national highway in Ha Tinh Province. Dang Vu Tuan Son, head of the Vietnam Astronomy and Cosmology Association, told Nguoi Lao Dong (Laborer) newspaper that the item was more likely a meteor than space junk. Son said space junk is usually small and would not cause such a big explosion.
"But we have to find the debris to know exactly what it was."
If you think asteroids are rare, it's only because they're so small and dark and hard to see. An eye-opening new video (above) shows what the night sky would look like if we could see the near-Earth asteroids astronomers have discovered -- it's quite a swarm.
"We're essentially flying around the sun through this population of asteroids with our eyes closed," Scott Manley, the astronomer who created the animation and posted it to YouTube, says in the video.

The fireball had been spotted across the sky over Walker County, Alabama, around 1am on Monday morning, and several witnesses called police believing it to be an aviation incident
A fireball had been spotted across the sky over Walker County, Alabama, around 1am on Monday morning, and several witnesses called police believing it to be an aviation incident.
Deputies with the Walker and Jefferson County Sheriff's offices investigated it as a possible plane crash between Sumiton and Dora, local news reports.
However, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration has today confirmed that the fireball was a meteor.
The FAA received 'numerous reports' about the fireball, Kathleen Bergen told Fox News' WBRC.com.
News channel 6 viewers submitted numerous videos depicting a bright object streaking across the sky. Reports of the object started coming into local law enforcement agencies around 1:30 AM. Videos started coming into our Facebook Page.
Comment: As usual, the "experts" try to explain any unusual sighting of a meteorite as "re-entry". We wonder when they are going to run out of Russian satellites for that excuse. There fact is, there has been a number of indicators, such as an intensification of noctilucent clouds or rare cloud formations that our atmosphere isn't doing exactly what the experts think it should do, due to a dust loading in the upper levels, for example. As explained in Pierre Lescaudron's book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.