We received 56 reports about a fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Gelderland, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thüringen on Monday, March 23rd 2026 around 18:28 UT.
Swaths of Nebraska are engulfed in fire, with some 800,000 acres burned and at least one person killed. The wildfires, which are the "largest wildfires in our history," according to a post on X by state's governor Jim Pillen, are being driven by a powerful heat wave across the western U.S.
Temperatures in the 80s Fahrenheit have combined with low humidity, high winds and extreme drought to increase the risk of fire in the state for at least the coming week. Already, the fires have been burning for days.
The largest of the fires, called the Morrill Fire, is less than 20 percent contained at the time of writing, according to a federal wildfire monitor. The blaze, which began on March 12, rapidly grew because of high winds. It is between about 550,000 and 643,000 acres in size. The Morrill Fire's cause remains unclear.
This video shows a bright bolide recorded on March 17, at 23:30 local time (equivalent to 22:30 universal time). At the start of the video, the fireball has been sonified by for outreach purposes (its light was converted into sound). The bolide 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 108,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Murcia and Albacete (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 95 km over the locality of Jumilla (province of Murcia), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 42 km over the locality of Cañada del Salobral (province of Albacete).
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 Otura (Granada). The event has been analyzed by the team headed by Dr. Jose M. Madiedo (principal investigator of the SMART project), from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). Its code in the SWEMN database is: SWEMN20260317_223039.
WKYC Channel 3 YOUTUBE/NWS Pittsburgh captures video of meteor shooting across the sky
Residents across Northeast Ohio woke up to something far louder than a St. Patrick's Day celebration this morning. Just before 9 a.m., tens of thousands of people across Northeast Ohio, as well as parts of Pennsylvania and New York, heard and felt what many described as a massive explosion.
No one knew immediately what had caused it. Within hours, the National Weather Service office in Cleveland provided an answer.
What the National Weather Service confirmed
The NWS Cleveland posted on social media that the latest Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery pointed to a meteor as the source of the boom. The agency shared the imagery alongside its assessment, making clear that the event was natural in origin rather than the result of any industrial or structural incident.
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