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Meteor fireball streaks through aurora-filled skies over Canada on June 3

A purple and blue aurora borealis is seen, combined with the bright contrail of a meteor in the skies above Canada.
© Andres U.A purple and blue aurora borealis is seen, combined with the bright contrail of a meteor in the skies above Canada.
Spectators were already out capturing the stunning aurora display when a blazing meteor sped past.

What is it?

At 5:57 a.m. local time skywatchers around Montréal, Canada and parts of the northeastern U.S. found themselves watching the brilliant streak of a bright meteor, also called a fireball, zoom across the sky.

The aurora borealis, or "the northern lights" happen when charged particles ejected from the sun interact with Earth's atmosphere. These particles are shuttled to our planet's north and south poles by Earth's magnetic field. There, the particles excite gas and molecules in Earth's atmosphere, creating various colors depending on which gas is in the atmosphere.

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Meteor fireball falls during the day in several states of Mexico on May 31 [Update: Calculated total impact energy 1 kt of TNT]

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The passage of a suspected meteorite disrupted the tranquility of the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, leaving hundreds of residents breathless in several states in central Mexico.

According to the San Luis Potosí State Civil Protection Coordination, the sighting was accompanied by vibrations in structures, which generated a wave of citizen reports.

Several municipalities, such as Tamuín, Tamasopo, Tamazunchale and Ciudad Valles, felt the tremor after the unidentified object passed by.

The agency reported that it consulted NASA's Planetary Defense platform , which specializes in monitoring near-Earth objects, which confirmed that five asteroids recently entered Earth orbit.

One of them, identified as 2025 KS8 , is the closest and, according to estimates, could be leaving visible debris in its wake which would explain the bright fireball seen in the sky.


Comment: From the CNEOS list [Link]
2025-05-31 23:06:33 UTC Locations 21.1N 98.8W Velocity: 17.8 km/s Calculated Total Impact Energy 1kt TNT.

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Meteor fireball over Holland and 2 other countries on June 2

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We received 26 reports about a fireball seen over Friesland, Groningen, Hessen, Limburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Région wallonne, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Vlaanderen, Waals Gewest and Zuid-Holland on Monday, June 2nd 2025 around 22:19 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over California and 2 other states on May 31

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We received 8 reports about a fireball seen over Arizona, CA and NV on Saturday, May 31st 2025 around 04:48 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Stunning meteor fireball over southern Spain (May 28)

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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.


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Night sky turns to day as meteor fireball streaks over China on May 28

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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.


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Meteor fireball over New York and other states on May 27

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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.


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Meteor fireball over Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota on May 26

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We received 5 reports about a fireball seen over Manitoba and MN on Monday, May 26th 2025 around 05:41 UT.

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


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Meteor fireball over Minnesota and Wisconsin on May 25

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We received 5 reports about a fireball seen over Minnesota and Wisconsin on Sunday, May 25th 2025 around 09:29 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over Minnesota and other states on May 23

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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.