{"id":799342,"date":"2025-11-25T06:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799342"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:17:29","slug":"bright-daylight-fireball-produces-sonic-boom-over-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799342","title":{"rendered":"Bright daylight fireball produces sonic boom over Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p><strong>A very bright daylight fireball was observed over Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on November 23, 2025, streaking across the skies as it disintegrated, producing a sonic boom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"880\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Impresionante Meteoro diurno a las 6:15pm<br \/>Un brillante meteoro se apreci\u00f3 este domingo desde toda la Isla mirando en direcci\u00f3n al Este, indic\u00f3 la Sociedad de Astronom\u00eda del Caribe (SAC).<br \/>Varios de los testigos aseguran que percibieron un sonido o estruendo varios segundos despu\u00e9s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXK6kuGXVz\">pic.twitter.com\/hXK6kuGXVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SocAstronom\u00edaCaribe (@Soc_AstroCaribe) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Soc_AstroCaribe\/status\/1992740503193108485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>A bright daytime fireball was seen over Puerto Rico at around 22:10 UTC on November 23. The event was captured by the Caribbean Astronomy Society (CAS).<\/p>\n<p>According to Eddie Irizarry, vice president of the SAC, the fireball was a 1\u20133 m (3\u201310 feet) wide meteor that produced a sonic boom as it streaked through the island\u2019s sky.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Meanwhile, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received\u00a07 reports\u00a0of the fireball from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, along with St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas from the Virgin Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fireball was travelling southwestward, with most observers reporting a greenish hue around the fireball, indicating the presence of magnesium, which generates a green glow as it burns in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trajectory of the fireball over Puerto Rico on November 23, 2025. Credit;: AMS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-6-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2cba6ad83b11060670e85ce21edef5bc\"><em>Feature image credit: SAC<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- MOLONGUI AUTHORSHIP PLUGIN 5.1.0 --><br \/>\n<!-- https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/wordpress-plugin-post-authors --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2025\/11\/25\/bright-daylight-fireball-produces-sonic-boom-over-puerto-rico\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very bright daylight fireball was observed over Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on November 23, 2025, streaking across the skies as it disintegrated, producing a sonic boom. Impresionante&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}