A fireball resembling a meteor shower was visible across Spain on Sunday night.
Video clips shared online showed bursts of orange flames filling the skies at around 11pm.
Although they looked similar to a meteor shower, experts were quick to debunk the theory, instead suggesting they were a defunct a satellite or space debirs reentering the Earth’s atmosphere.
It came after social media users questioned whether they were the ‘tears of San Lorenzo’ – the popular name for the Perseid meteor shower, which takes place every year in early to mid-August.
Meteorologists at Proyecto Mastral said in a post on X: ‘The reentry into the atmosphere of some satellite or space debris, still unidentified, has left us today with these spectacular images in the sky across all of Spain.
‘It is neither a comet nor a meteorite.’
The event was witnessed across Andalucia, including the Costa del Sol, plus Alicante, Valencia and the Balaeric Islands.
