On the early morning of June 15th, 2025, residents of northeast Mexico and the adjacent Texas border region were treated with a brief but spectacular sight – a fireball (a very bright meteor) which streaked across the night sky.
Source: Astronomical Society of Nuevo León
On its website, the American Meteor Society has a very detailed page on the phenomenon, click here to see it.
The Society received 20 reports of the fireball, which are portrayed on that detailed page. After its brief flyby, there were reports of a boom which may have been the meteor’s explosion.
The majority of the sightings were in the Monterrey-Saltillo area of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila states, with a couple of others in Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
The U.S. sightings were along the Texas side of the border.
One group that got a first row seat was a group of campers at the Potrero Chico Park near Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon. This park is a famous destination for rock climbers and is considered one of the top ten sport climbing locations in the world.
The campers, members of the Sociedad Astronómica de Nuevo León (Astronomical Society of Nuevo León), were there for astronomical observation and were thus not disappointed.
The organization posted this on Facebook [translated to English]: “This weekend, we went camping… with 100 people to live an astronomical experience under the stars, and what do you think?????? Yes, we saw the fireball that came in at 2 a.m.”
For detailed information on the sightings and a couple of videos, click here.