A meteor fell and his fire went on for a few seconds at night in Florida

The night of Saturday will be in memory of many residents of the US state of Florida. A fireball fell from the sky with a blue-green light that faded until finally disappearing into the horizon. According to the National Meteorological Service (NWS) of the capital Talhbadee, it was a meteorite.

The videos and photos of the phenomenon became viral in seconds. "Can any one explain what just happened ?!", wrote one of the many witnesses who, with his camera, recorded six seconds of the fall of the meteorite. For the moment, it is not known if the rock of space that has entered the planet's atmosphere has disintegrated before touching the earth.

The sensors of the meteorological service recorded the heating produced by the meteorite at around 23:52, according to the indications of his Twitter account. "We heard that fell near Perryin Florida it would coincide with Lightning geostationary map generator (GOES Lightning Mapper, GLM) data, but we can not confirm anything, "they said.

"Meteors entering the earth's atmosphere are common, but we can not always see them," Haley Brink, a meteorologist, told Reuters. CNN. "Today, we have so many satellites in the space and ground cameras that these events are becoming more visible to the general public.

A meteor is the luminous phenomenon that occurs when an asteroid or other celestial body enters the atmosphere of the Earth. It is commonly called a shooting star. But if it does not vaporize completely and a part of it strikes the surface of the Earth, it is called meteorite.