CCTV footage from Japan's Hiratsuka City Museum captured the moment a meteor soared through the night sky over Japan's Mount Fuji on Friday.
While most meteors appear white, some can glow green, yellow, red, or blue, depending on the elements in the material as it burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
This bright bolide was spotted from Spain on December 20, at 22:10 local time (equivalent to 21:10 universal time). The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks.
The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 79,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the province of Toledo (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 86 km over the locality of Portillo de Toledo (province of Toledo), moved west, and ended at a height of around 38 km over the locality of Nuño Gómez (province of Toledo).
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 La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Mazagón (Huelva). 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: SWEMN20251220_211023.
We received 52 reports about a fireball seen over Bretagne, England, Hauts-de-France, Utrecht, Wales and Zuid-Holland on Saturday, December 20th 2025 around 00:13 UT.
For this event, we received one video and one photo.
We received 229 reports about a fireball seen over AL, AR, IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NC, OH, Ontario, TN and WI on Monday, December 15th 2025 around 01:36 UT.
Clima ao Vivo cameras recorded a meteor that occurred during the night of this Monday (15), illuminating the sky of 7 cities in the state of São Paulo. Check out the footage.
We received 11 reports about a fireball seen over Friesland, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Vlaanderen on Saturday, December 13th 2025 around 20:40 UT.
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