Dazzling Fireball Streaks Across Moroccan Sky at 65,000 MPH

An extraterrestrial object was detected at 10:10 p.m. after the SMART project detectors turned red last Wednesday. It is a "fireball" that penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere. The radars, which operate as part of the Southwest Europe Fireball and Meteor Network (SWEMN), flashed it at 105,000 km/h.

It is an incandescent rock, probably detached from a comet, which flew over the Mediterranean about 23 kilometers off the Moroccan coast. A fireball that crossed the sky in a southwest direction before going out at an altitude of 69 kilometers above northern Morocco after traveling 72 kilometers in the atmosphere, say the scientists of the Andalusian Institute of Astrophysics (IAA-CSIC).