Unusual – a mysterious blue flash, then screams of surprise. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, May 19, several Portuguese and Spanish netizens shared amazing videos of what appears to be a meteor crossing the night sky.
As you can see in the video above, The majority of the images were captured by car cameras or security cameras. In one particularly impressive video, a woman films herself walking, before stopping in amazement when she sees the blue ball lighting up the clouds.
The possible meteorite was seen across Spain, in Andalusia but also in Castile-La Mancha, Madrid and Galicia, before ending its path in Portugal, according to… El Pais. Emergency services in Madrid also explained to the European News Agency that they had received several calls about the presence of a strange object in the sky.
According to the Portuguese newspaper coimbra diary, Emergency services were mobilized in the municipality of Castro Dire in Portugal, where “ Possibility of a meteorite falling » Reported. However, the 20 officers on site have so far not found anything after patrolling the area.
On X, formerly Twitter, astrophysicist José María Madedo talks about “ Amazing fireball » « Produced by a rock from a comet According to the researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics in Andalusia, the meteor began its journey at an altitude of 122 kilometers above the Spanish city of Don Benito, before it was seen in Portugal and ended over the Atlantic Ocean. It is possible to see the rock from a distance of more than 800 kilometers, and it is possible that it will disintegrate throughout its path, and the pieces disintegrate in the atmosphere.
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