The fireball burned brightly in the sky over the Atlantic on Tuesday evening

Late Tuesday night over the Atlantic erupted a ball of fire, hundreds of people witnessed the meteor lit up the night sky.

A fireball or bolide is incredibly bright meteor that lights the whole sky when it burns in the Earth's atmosphere. Flash from it lasts much longer than ordinary "falling stars", the meteorite was visible for nearly 10 seconds. This confirms the video depicting an unusual phenomenon.

The light of the meteor was so intense that the lightning detector on the weather satellite GOES-16 was able to fix it.

Witnesses reported that the meteor glowed blue and green. The color of the meteor, flashing in the Earth's atmosphere, associated with its chemical composition. Various chemicals and elements to emit different colors.

In fact, the phenomenon is not so rare cars, such as the one that was seen on Tuesday evening, appear every day in different parts of the world.

"Every day in the atmosphere of the Earth gets several thousands of celestial bodies. Most of them, however, breaks out over the oceans and uninhabited regions and many are masked by daylight," explains specialist American Meteor Society.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»