Near-Earth objects and close calls

[sToRmR1dR]

Bright fireball captured streaking in the sky above Spain and Morocco.

Published on Nov 18, 2025 (2:13)

 

[sToRmR1dR]

A bright fireball lit up the night sky over the Gulf of Cádiz, Spain.

Published on Nov 20, 2025 (1:54)

 

[Nienna]

Is it just me, or are there a lot of fireballs falling over Spain recently?

 

[Gaby]

Is it just me, or are there a lot of fireballs falling over Spain recently?

I think they just have a very good system, with cameras monitoring their skies and several accounts (youtube, twitter, etc). Meteroides.net is always filming and reporting trajectories of bolides and the like in their skies. They're very well organized, with people sending them their films. It creates a bias of fireballs over Spain. Before used to be Puerto Rico, but during the last years, they either closed shop or their system is not as good as it used to.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

A bright fireball lit up the night sky over the Extremadura, Spain.

Published on Nov 20, 2025 (2:03)

 

[Puma]

Meteor in Puerto Rico.

Impressive daytime meteor at 6:15 p.m. A bright meteor was seen this Sunday from across the island looking eastward, according to the Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC). Several witnesses claim to have heard a sound or boom several seconds later.​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1992740503193108485

 

[thorbiorn]

It's a hit for James McCanney, who is being talking and writing about the censorship and restrictions for decades.

He explains it in this video with relation to the 3I/ATLAS passage of Mars.

They're very well organized, with people sending them their films. It creates a bias of fireballs over Spain. Before used to be Puerto Rico, but during the last years, they either closed shop or their system is not as good as it used to.

Another aspect is the number of hours with sunshine, which is representative of the hours that one can observe stars. From this site, there is:

 

[thorbiorn]

The CNEOS list has 30 entries for 2025. Often there have been 35+- per year, so pretty normal assuming honest counting, also in previous years.