Footage filmed from several cities across both countries shows an object of 'cometary origin' streaking across the sky at around 28 miles per second.
A comet fragment lit up the skies over parts of Spain and Portugal overnight - as one person said witnessing the blue fireball 'felt like a movie'. The European Space Agency shared a video on the X social media platform on Sunday which it says was captured by its 'fireball camera'. The agency said the blue light streaking across the sky over the western Spanish city of Caceres was a 'stunning meteor' travelling at roughly 28 miles per second.
has said magnesium creates a blue-green colour when it burns in meteors. The Spanish Calar Alto astronomical observatory said a preliminary analysis by Andalusia's Institute of Astrophysics revealed the object had a 'cometary origin'. footage released by the mayor's office in the city of Cadiz in southwestern Spain shows the fireball crossing the sky at 12.46am local time . Read more from Sky News:Experts reveal when Northern Lights could be seen in UK again'Super fluffy' planet bigger than Jupiter discovered The fragment was filmed streaking across the sky as a singer performed at a concert in the Portuguese city of Barcelos.
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