A meteor has rocked the skies of western Cuba, exploding mid-air, shattering windows and raining charred meteorite rocks on folks’s properties. Before its spectacular demise, the house rock was seen flying above Florida.
The meteor exploded close to the city of Viñales, in the Pinar del Río province, Friday, with witnesses reporting listening to two loud blasts because it disintegrated. The physique left an enormous path of smoke in the sky and showered the bottom with small rocks.
The terrifying celestial occasion occurred in the clear gentle of day, and locals managed to catch the sky spectacle on their cellphones.
Local channel TelePinar’s reporter Fátima Rivera Amador was one of many first folks to submit what seems like items of meteorite. Close-up footage of her holding charred rocks with whitish materials on the within have been shared on social media.
Just earlier than the explosion above Cuba, the meteor was noticed from the US. The National Weather Service in Key West reported that it was seen over the Florida Keys, as far north as Marathon.
The explosion, which reportedly rattled some windows in the city, has additionally induced quite a lot of confusion, with some shops first reporting it as a crash of a big aircraft.
An “independent journalist” Ignacio Luis Gonzalez Vidal went even additional and claimed that it was a navy plane filled with Cuban troopers coming back from Venezuela. No proof to again up the daring declare was supplied.