Residents of El Salvador, capital of the northeastern state of Bahia in Brazil, watched a dazzling bright object falling from the sky that exploded in a huge flash at low altitude on February 20, 2018.
Residents of Monte Gordo, in the Camasari district of the El Salvador metropolitan area, also heard the explosion.
The owner of the site, Mr Edinei da Silva Almeida, said that after he heard the explosion, he saw the grass on the ground burst into flames. Then, with his neighbors, he discovered a strange object at the site of burning grass. The object looks like a piece of iron about 15 cm and weighs about 2.9 kg.
While most experts believe it to be a meteorite, the Brazilian Weather Monitoring Network (Bramon) suggests that there is also the possibility that it is part of a rocket that was sent by Russia to the International Space Station, and it is possible that it broke apart and fell, Bahia reported. Globo.1.com.
Be that as it may, what it is is still a mystery.