Spanish meteor misses airports

A SPECTACULAR fireball meteor was seen falling in the neighbourhood of two Madrid airports, emergency services said yesterday.

“We had three calls and are aware of other calls reporting a huge fireball before midnight,” said Luis Serrano of the emergency telephone service in Madrid.

Spanish press agency EFE also received calls reporting the falling object, which was seen descending nearly vertically near the airports.

“An enormous, incandescent and very red ball gave a tremendous flash and then went out in a few seconds,” witness Jose Antonio Lopez told EFE. He believed it was a meteor “by the way it fell and the brevity of the flash.”