© NASACometary fragment crossing the atmosphere (archive).
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.
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.