For this event, we received one video.
Fire in the Sky
For this event, we received one video.
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The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Sevilla.
An unusual sight was spotted in Cork skies last night when a meteorite was filmed blazing through the sky before it had even gone dark.
Footage shared on Twitter last night shows the fireball blasting across the Cork skyline while it was still bright.
The video was taken in Ballinhassig at around 9:26pm with experts saying it would be unusual for it to be a meteorite so early in the night.
Earlier today, a meteor flew through the skies of California. Tens of people in California saw the meteor, most of those around the San Francisco area. Witnesses flocked to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sighting.
Some were concerned that it was going to make land surface - which it did not.
A person named Cole told the IMO: "It was extremely close looking compared to any other meteor-like object I've observed and was headed towards the direction of Briones Reservoir.
"Could've touched down not too far from my location but am unsure. Very visible fragmentation."
Authorities received multiple reports from residents saying they heard an "explosion" on Saturday night, but found no evidence of an explosion.
Fire and Rescue NSW and NSW police responded to the calls, but said they found nothing, not even a fire, to indicate an explosion had taken place.
Mystery surrounds the incident, with reports the sound was heard across Marrickville, Roselands, Bardwell Park, Campsie and Belmore.
Residents reported windows shaking, and that the sound was something like an explosion or a backfiring car, but with no visual indicators.
© La Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe
Meteor seen across Puerto Rico at approximately 8:02 PM Friday 7th May 2021
Meteor seen across Puerto Rico at approximately 8:02 PM Friday 7th May 2021
The meteor was visible from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba at approximately 8:02 PM Friday 7th May 2021.
According to the Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC), "It was a space rock of metallic content friction with our atmosphere."
Satoshi Imamura, an expert in space issues, dispelled doubts about the nature of the object and explained that it was a bright shooting star known as a fireball or bolide. The intense luminosity occurs when dust and asteroid fragments in outer space enter the atmosphere and burn.
Cpl. Nicole Medenwald saw a meteor, and rather than savor the memory, she got to review the proof!
The Collier County Sheriff's Office said she had just come from conducting a traffic stop. She repositioned her patrol car to face North 15th Street to watch for cars.
"I saw a green light and then it lit up the sky," Cpl. Medenwald said. "It reminded me of lightning at night the way the sky lit up."
Cpl. Medenwald said she's seen meteors before but has never seen one break the atmosphere and light up the sky.
Speaking exclusively to the Times of Oman, Yusuf bin Zahir Al Salmi, Official of Al Huwqain Astronomical Observatory, said: "Eyewitnesses from Al Huwqain, Wadi Bani Ghafir villages in the Wilayat of Rustaq in South Al Batinah Governorate and from the Wilayats of Ibri, Yanqul, and Dhank in Al Dhahirah Governorate, reported that at exactly 8:28 pm on Wednesday's evening the 15th of Ramadan, April 28, 2021, a very bright white light was seen tending to blue, penetrating clouds, starting from the northeast, heading to the southwest, and after a few seconds an explosion followed."
