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© ESA ExtrasESA cameras in Cáceres record a spectacular fireball lighting up the skies over Spain and Portugal.
The spectacular moment was caught on camera by the European Space Agency's (ESA) meteor detection station in Cáceres, confirming what witnesses across the Iberian Peninsula had already seen - a huge fireball blazing through the atmosphere - Scroll down to see the video at the end of this article.
At exactly 20:41 CET, ESA's AMS82 station, located in Casas de Millán (Cáceres, Spain), captured the event. The monitoring site forms part of ESA's Planetary Defence Office and the AllSky7 network, which keeps an eye on meteors and bolides across Europe.
According to ESA, the brilliant object was travelling northwest over Portugal when it appeared about 97 kilometres above Lousã (Castelo Branco). Moments later, it disintegrated around 43 kilometres above Amiosinho (Coimbra). In that short journey, the meteor covered roughly 80 kilometres, travelling at an incredible 81,000 kilometres per hour before it vanished in a blinding flash.
Scientists later confirmed the object wasn't detected before entering Earth's atmosphere, meaning the fireball came as a complete surprise — a rare but thrilling reminder of how unpredictable space can be.
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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, 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: SWEMN20251102_012928.
