Videos of ‘breathtaking’ blue meteor lighting up skies over Spain and Portugal stun internet users: Watch | World News

Social media is flooded with videos showing a giant glowing blue object lighting up the sky, with users claiming it is a meteor spotted in Spain and Portugal. One of the videos was shared on X by user Collin Rugg, who wrote: “Meteor spotted in skies over Spain and Portugal.”

“This is insane,” the caption reads, adding that some early reports claimed people could see the blue light “stretching across the night sky for hundreds of miles.”

“At this time, it has not been confirmed whether it hit the Earth’s surface, but some reports indicate that it may have fallen near the town of Castro Daire,” Rugg wrote. “Other reports say it was closer to Pinheiro.”

Another viral video shot from a different location also shows the meteor. Look at:

According to NASA, “When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, such as Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. Meteoroids, rocks in space, range in size from dust grains to small asteroids.

“A once-in-a-lifetime show”

Rugg’s video attracted a lot of attention, with one stunned user commenting: “So cool! I hope no one was hurt. “Legitimate!!! A once-in-a-lifetime sight,” one user wrote, while another added: “It’s absolutely breathtaking.”

“This has to be the craziest meteor footage I have ever seen. I bet seeing it in person was mind blowing,” one user wrote, while another said: “It’s crazy!” Mad props to whoever was able to obtain these images! » One wrote: “What a sight to see, indeed! Wonderful.”

“Mesmerizing… in fact so fascinating that people even forget they’re recording lol,” while another user said: “I saw one once in rural Central California, along with two others people. I seriously had time to think “we’re going the way of the dinosaurs”. We checked the news and the radio, nothing, and it must have burned without hitting anything.