Cando (parish of San Tirso) is a village in northwestern
Spain
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, in
Outes
Outes is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It has a population of 6,155 (Spanish 2020 Census) and an area of 100 km².
The Cando event happened in 1994 within the bou ...
, province of
A Coruña
A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...
, and the region of
Galicia, with a population of around 1000.
It was the location of the observation of a
fireball in early 1994, and the subsequent discovery of an explosion site (
crater
A crater is a landform consisting of a hole or depression (geology), depression on a planetary surface, usually caused either by an object hitting the surface, or by geological activity on the planet. A crater has classically been described ...
), which has been interpreted by some as being related to
UFO
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying saucers found too broad a range of shapes ...
activity.
See also
*
List of meteor air bursts
*
Bólido de Cando on the Spanish Wikipedia
References
Populated places in the Province of A Coruña
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