The Managua event was an explosion that was widely reported as a possible meteorite fall on 6 September 2014 in Managua, Nicaragua, near the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport runway. Its actual cause remains undetermined. No eyewitnesses, ground-based cameras, or satellite operators reported seeing a meteor (bolide), and no meteorites have been recovered. To create a crater of that size by meteorite impact would have required a bolide brighter than the full Moon. This indicates that the crater was most likely not produced by a meteorite fall.