This one was more spectacular because its shallow trajectory caused it to bounce off the Earth's atmosphere leaving a lingering trail.

It was at 04.08h Sunday morning that this phenonemon crossed the skies over the Mediterranean, from North-West Africa to the Island of Ibiza.

The SMART Project system using the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, the Sierra Nevada Observatory and La Sagra one, also in Granada, tracked this unusual astral phenonemon.

This fireball was a fragment from a comet travelling at 83,000 kph when it hit the atmosphere some 99 kilometres up, exiting at 100 kilometres altitude.

That’s the third fireball since April this year. The second was just over a week ago. Last year there were three (February, May and June), too

(News: Andalucia)