Social media users circulated pictures and videos of a fireball that lit up the sky and passed at a strong speed from the western side of Algeria towards the southeast. Dr.
Jamal Mimouni, President of the Algerian Astronomy Society said that the space object that was seen on Sunday night, the seventh of May / May in many of the northern regions of Algeria can not be sure that it is a meteorite. He said that there is a difference between a Meteorite and a flaming fireball, as the meteorite is a name we give to fragments and stones that fall.