Residents in the UK and Cuba described how they saw shiny objects falling from the sky, followed by a loud noise. Unconfirmed meteoric observations have also been reported in the US.
A dashcam has recorded a bright light ball flying across the sky over the island of Jersey, a British territory in the English Channel.
Around the same time, locals in the United Kingdom heard a loud bang in the southwestern provinces of Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Somerset. The sound was described as a “sonic shock wave” en a “Big rumble” on social media.
A person told DevonLive that it sounded ‘like a big explosion’.
“It was this big bass-y-tree that resounded for about 20 seconds, followed by a series of banging sounds,” he said.
Another apparent meteor was spotted over Cuba, where residents said they saw shiny objects in the night sky and heard what sounded like explosions. Reports on social media claim that the meteor was also seen from Jamaica.
There are apparently reports of a # meteor explosion over Moa, Holguin in Cuba. A seismological station has detected the shock wave and there are also a number of visual reports.# NOAA#GOESEast GLM images have a bright flash right over the area of visual reports at 02:05 UTC pic.twitter.com/WWoNaO4kfV
– CM2ESP (@ CM2ESP_Raydel) 20 March 2021
The head of Cuba’s national seismological service, Enrique Arango Arias, told the news website Cubadebate that the “Phenomenon” was observed from the villages of Moa, Sagua de Tanamo and Maisi. He added that the agency’s equipment recorded a shock wave, the source of which did not come from the ground.
The media quoted the Institute of Meteorology as saying that it was recording a flash in the upper atmosphere, which probably came from the explosion.
The National Seismological Service has noted that the bright objects that can be seen from Earth can be meteors or smaller space rock, debris or debris from spacecraft and satellites. The agency later said they could find no evidence that the meteor hit the ground, meaning the cosmic object probably crumbled in the air.
There were also unconfirmed reports of a meteor crossing the east coast of the US. A video circulating on social media allegedly shows a bright fireball descending from the sky over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The local TV channel KDKA quoted the American Meteor Society as saying that 131 reports had been submitted about this event.
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