This stunning bolide was spotted from Spain on May 28, at 1:13 local time (equivalent to 23:13 universal time on May 27). It was almost as bright as the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 146,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Granada and Córdoba (southern Spain). It began at an altitude of about 114 km over the locality of Romilla (province of Granada), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 76 km over the locality of La Fuente Grande (province of Córdoba).
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: SWEMN20250527_231301.
On the evening of May 28, 2025, a "fire meteor" suddenly appeared in the night sky of Maoming, Guangdong, lighting up the sky.
On the evening of May 28, a rare fireball meteor phenomenon occurred over Maoming, Guangdong Province, and surrounding areas, drawing widespread attention. At around 9:30 pm, a sudden, intense flash of light appeared in the night sky, momentarily illuminating the ground as if it were daylight.
The brightness was so extreme that it startled people who witnessed it — even flocks of ducks in nearby farms were frightened and scattered in panic. According to multiple surveillance camera recordings, the meteor had a light trail that shifted from orange-yellow to blue-green and was far brighter than a typical meteor. Gou Lijun, an expert at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirmed it was a fireball meteor.
We received 22 reports about a fireball seen over Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ontario and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, May 27th 2025 around 05:59 UT.
For this event, we received one video and one photo.
We received 54 reports about a fireball seen over IA, IL, MI, Minnesota, MN, MO, ND, Ontario, SD, WI and Wisconsin on Friday, May 23rd 2025 around 05:59 UT.
For this event, we received 4 videos and one photo.
We received 51 reports about a fireball seen over CO, Colorado, Kansas, KS, MO, NE, OK, Oklahoma, Texas and TX on Wednesday, May 21st 2025 around 08:45 UT.
For this event, we received 5 videos and 2 photos.
A country police officer has won the race to recover a meteorite that lit up the skies over southern Western Australia.
It is believed the astronomical anomaly dubbed the Mother's Day meteorite entered the atmosphere over the Central Wheatbelt about 6am on May 11, travelling south.
A team of scientists from Curtin University's Desert Fireball Network (DFN), who track meteors across Australia, mapped its trajectory, estimating the impact point just south of the Breakaways, 460 kilometres east of Perth in the state's Goldfields.
DFN director Eleanor Sansom and her team were in the sky over the crash site when the discovery was made.
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