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Hundreds of people sighted "fire balls" crossing skies of Spain
MADRID. ABC
The citizens of Galicia, Leon, Palencia, Madrid, Teruel and Castellón were witnesses of the passage of an incandescent ball that the experts create a meteorite
Of the west to a this and in a matter of minutes "great fire ball", as many described it, he crossed yesterday in the evening skies of the Peninsula. And although surely that many of people that sighted it thought at first that it could be the Star of East - more than nothing by the dates that we lived -, most probable is than outside a meteorite, that first flew over Galicia and later it went to Leon, Palencia, Teruel and Castellón.
The first sightings took place to the 17,47 hours in Santiago de Compostela. The phenomenon left agape all the spectators who attended in the stage San Lazaro the soccer match between the Compostela and San Sebastián of the Kings. Indeed, between the public the person in charge of the Astronomical observatory was "Ramon Maria Aller", of the University of Santiago, Jose Docobo Angel, who assured to ABC that by the luminosity, the height to which crossed the sky (between one and 50 kilometers) and his inclination of 30-35 degrees, the cosmic stone could weigh between 10 and 100 tons. In his opinion, one would be "a bolide that in its trajectory through the atmosphere fragmented in multiple pieces and caused a final deflagration, that in some places, could accompany itself by a strong detonation".
This type of events, according to Docobo, cannot be preveer because the cosmic stones, although are great, do not appear in the telescopes when they only are outside the atmosphere but when they penetrate it. Docobo remembered that this phenomenon is more usual than takes place at night and in Galicia.
The father of Jose Manuel Docobo, Manuel, also presents/displays in the sport encounter, said that he saw a phenomenon similar to "a head of ignited match which he followed a species of tail. We saw it the height of near mounts and hardly 2 seconds, he disappeared right away. It was a simple impression ".
For the director of the Astronomical observatory of Majorca, Salvador Sanchez, who received diverse calls of eyewitnesses, "has been a" slow phenomenon ", with a wake whose thickness was equivalent to half of the Full Moon". Being based on the gathered testimonies, that spoke of a "off-white light", Salvador Sanchez points the possibility that he was not a meteorite, but of "space sweepings", that is to say, the rest of a satellite falling to the Earth. Sanchez justifies this opinion saying that "if she had been a rock, their friction with the atmosphere would have disturbed their chemical elements, giving rise to green, blue or yellow colors, never white". Also he affirms that the size of the meteorite would be below the 25 meters, that are the minimum rank of pick up so that this class of objects can be detected by terrestrial telescopes.
Roar to its passage in Leon
In his periplo to the wide thing of the Iberian Peninsula, the fire ball followed course skies of Leon and Palencia. Almost the hundred of neighbors that resides in the locality of Renedo de Valderaduey, bordering between both provinces, not only could contemplate the phenomenon in the horizon, but that "underwent" the roar that caused to its step. Male Elena, runs both of one of bars of the municipality, declared to ABC that all the neighbors left alarmed their houses, when "resounding all crystals and plates" after a comparable outbreak "to the blast of explosives in a quarry". "It was, really, a atronador sound that scared us to all", it said.
The Civil Guard of Almanza personó in the municipality before the calls of the neighbors but, although all located the possible fall of the supposed meteorite in a near mount, the Meritorious one "did not find anything". In spite of everything, the leonine commands of Almanza, Cistierna, Sahagún, the Magdalena and Boñar will today resume the search of the possible rest of a meteorite and that could have caused mount fire CONATO located in the limit between Leon and Palencia.
The neighbors of localities of this last province, like Saldaña, Velilla and the own palentina capital, agree in indicating that they had sighted a great fire ball, followed of much smoke and next a roar similar to the one of an explosion. In I keep, for example, many witnesses assured to have seen an immense fire ball of yellowish color that disappeared after a mountain. "I listened to a terrible roar. I thought that it was an atomic pump or an earthquake. In the street people were shown to the window and watched the sky. The explosion has lasted seconds ", assured a neighbor the locality that explained that when going out" people did not seem scared because the sound had disappeared and nothing in the sky was seen ".
And the fire ball followed course Madrid, where the phenomenon had an interview less to six the ten of afternoon, hour as of which the service of emergencies 112 received a twenty of calls coming from neighbors of populations near the mountain range of Guadarrama, which they alerted that a great incandescent object hurried at full speed on the riscos of the Pedriza and the Ball of the World. Nevertheless, sources of the service of emergency 112 have assured to this newspaper that after verifying those zones was not any rest of collision.
Incandescent ball
The flight continued towards Teruel, where the neighbors of two municipalities, Santa Eulalia of the Field and the Puebla of Valverde, observed "to move an incandescent ball by the sky", but members of the Civil Guard which they took care of the calls of the neighbors confirmed that they had not found anything there where said that it could have landed.
The firemen of Castellón also mobilized themselves after a call received in afternoon from yesterday from the Port of Burriana that alerted of a possible fall of a small plane or a "fire ball". The possible fall of an object from the sky also alerted to the Local Police and the Civil Guard of the zone, that tried to locate the object in the near localities. The Firemen of Nules confirmed that they had made diverse exits by the calls of neighbors, but did not find no fire sign.
On the other hand, the technicians of the main directorate of Interior of the Valencian Generalitat aim at that he could be fleeting stars. However, from the Weather station of Valencia they indicated that they lack instruments to detect this type of phenomena.
Sources of Spanish Airports and Navegacio'n Ae'rea (AENA) and the Iberia company said, to last hour of yesterday late, not to have certainty of which some problem in the air operations had taken place.
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