MOSCOW, May 19 .A meteor was spotted in the skies over Portugal on Saturday evening, the newspaper Publico reports.
“On Saturday evening, a flash of a luminous ball was noticed throughout Portugal. It was a meteor crossing the atmosphere,” the publication reports, citing eyewitnesses. It is noted that most of the videos of the phenomenon were made in the north of the country.
At the same time, a message about a “meteorite fall” in the area of the Castro Dairi municipality first appeared on the Civil Defense website, but was then deleted. The publication contacted firefighters, but they were unable to provide information about the incident.
A meteor is a luminous streak that a space object leaves in the night sky as it burns up in the atmosphere. It is often confused with a meteorite, which in turn is a solid body of cosmic origin that fell to the surface of the Earth.
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