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| Hundreds see fireballs fall from sky in Spain |
| 2004-01-04 |
| Hundreds of witnesses have reported seeing fireballs cross the skies of northern Spain on Sunday local time in what authorities said may have been a disintegrating meteorite, Spanish radio said. The bright flashes were spotted at around 6:00pm local time in a swathe across the northern half of Spain, from the eastern city of Valencia to the north-western pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela. In some cases, objects were reported to have fallen to earth. "I left the house at around 12 minutes to six - I heard a big explosion, like an earth tremor, and a white cloud of smoke formed around a nearby mountain which took a long time to disappear," a local official from the northern region of Palencia told the radio. Civil Guard officials told the radio an object had plunged from the skies in the northern province of Leon. |
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