[meteorite-list] Fireball Seen Over Canary Islands

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.tenerifenews.com/cms/front_content.php?client=1&lang=1&idcat=8&idart=3268

Great ball of fire?
The Fortnightly Tenerife News (Canary Islands, Spain)
January 31, 2006

Dozens of people throughout Tenerife jammed the 112 emergency hotline on
the night of January 10, all claiming to have witnessed something
strange in the sky: a ball of fire flying through the sky in the
direction of Gran Canaria trailing a green light.

One man who contacted the local media told how he had been driving along
the TF-1 autopista when he was startled to see what he described as a
small shining object cross the sky at high speed and vanish. The vision
had lasted just a matter of seconds, he said.

When consulted the Canary Astrophysics Institute said such phenomenon
are relatively frequent but go largely unnoticed because people rarely
look up at the sky.

The most probable explanation for the "fireball" was that it was a piece
of meteorite or space junk burning up as it entered the earth's atmosphere.