By: mrlen76
3/10/2007
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Earlier this evening -- well, yesterday (it is 1:14AM now) I was in Altona on a third story balconey looking north (city to my right, which I could see from 3 stories high) and then the whole sky lit up like daytime. I was with my dad and he pointed and said look. So I swung my head around and the whole eastern side of the sky was lit up just like daytime. However, the meteorite was blocked by the roof of the house, so I said to my dad "go around the other side", and he started shuffling so I said "quick, quick, quick" and he started running and I ran after him. When we got around the other side of the balconey (now facing south towards the bay) I could see a huge smoke trail in the night sky.
Did anyone else see this? I have been looking at news sites and all. Melbourne has almost 4 million people, surely tens of thousands of other people saw this? It was MASSIVE. To light the sky up light that it must have been the side of a car. I didn't see the actual object only the glow in the sky, because it slipped past the roof of the house at the split second I swung my head around. However my dad did see the actual object and he said it was all different colors like a rainbow. |
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By: mrlen76
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/meteor -lights-up-the-sky/2007/10/03/1191091123285.html
Tennis ball my ass. It lit the whole sky. |
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By: holden_van
3/10/2007
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| I viewed the same thing as you, apparently it was a meteor travelling @ approximately 70km/s. Very, very bright light, long tail that seemed to snake behind it, almost as though the debris was effected by winds in the atmosphere. |
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By: townsville_mcdonalds_crocodiles4
3/10/2007
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It's nothing. We sometimes see things like that in Townsville. Rare, but happens. I've seen only a couple of these things before over a span of many many years. Extremely bright (eg blue colour, or even green colour) and extremely quick. Fading out just before reaching the ground.
You just have to be in the right place at the right time, and looking at the right direction at the time. Otherwise, even if at the right place at right time, you wouldn't even know it appeared if just so happen to be looking in the wrong direction. Meteorites come down a fair bit..some bigger than others. |
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By: mrlen76
3/10/2007
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Yeah but it wasn't just a small thing. I was facing the total opposite direction and even that side of the sky lit up. I stuck my nose in the air looking for lightning (even though there were no clouds) and just then, my dad who was standing in front of me pointed over my shoulder and said what's that? I turned around and that whole sky was lit up like day time.
I saw a report yesterday and whoever wrote it obviously didn't see the event. They said it was a tennis ball sized meteorite. Well I don't think so. There's o way a tennis ball sized object would illuminate the whole sky.
Most people didn't see it. So I think people are just visualizing a shooting star with a bit of a hue around it. This thing that I saw LIT THE ENTIRE SKY and one half like daytime. |
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By: aus_jay
3/10/2007
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| I saw this happen to on my way home at approx 10pm...it did light up the whole sky ( i thought it was lightening to begin with but there were no clouds)...then about 10 minutes after that i saw a huge shotting star with the tail and everything...so unless there was a huge meteorite that caused the sky to light up before the one i saw...it seems like 2 seperate things to me. |
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By: glenn.triggs
3/10/2007
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| i was driving from eltham towards my home, doncaster, last night and saw the whole sky light up just like daytime, then it dissapeared. at first i thought it must be lightning. when i got out of the car in doncaster i noticed that i could see the stars, so there were no clouds. then suddenly i saw a smaller meteor burn up right over my head. this lead me to believe what was later confirmed by the news. would love to know if it hit the ground and where it did hit. anyone know any more info>>>> |
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By: glenn.triggs
3/10/2007
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| sounds like we saw the exact same thing |
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By: vicky_pointer
3/10/2007
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MeteorITE?
OVER Melbourne?
Regardless of the size of the object, that doesn't make any sense? |
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By: ozjenva
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| I live in the macedon ranges. Last night at about 9.40pm, I saw the same thing. The sky lit up and to my left was a meteor in the sky. Was great here, because of the low light pollution and the night sky was clear. There were several others in the following 15 minutes I saw, but not near as bright. You may not have seen them being in the city. I am hoping that I see more tonight, this shower is predicted and is suppose to peak later this month. |
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By: mrlen76
3/10/2007
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Really? Cool -- I'll keep an eye out. Well yeah, I only saw the one, but it was huge. Even 20 minutes from Melbourne (Altona) I could see very clearly that it was something huge. No way that was a tennis ball sized object.
Also, Vicky. Yeah, I meant meteor. Sorry I am not an astronomer :) |
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By: female_vocalist
3/10/2007
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I saw the whole thing. I was travelling along a back country road from Craigieburn to Epping. There are no street lights, it is very dark.
Suddenly the whole sky lit up. I looked up looking for lightning (as you do) and realised that the sky stayed lit up, so I looked around. The meteorite came from behind me like a rocket it was so fast! Changing colours as it got closer to the ground. It was huge! This was no shooting star. I do a lot of night travelling along country roads so I see a lot of shooting stars and the occasional meteorite. In fact I saw a meteorite at about 3am of sept 2 while coming back to Melbourne from Phillip Island. Last night's meteorite kicked that ones butt!
It was a little scary, from where I was it looked massive and I thought some of it might actually reach the ground.
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By: snowflache
3/10/2007
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| i saw the whole thing too! just in time. i had left a friends house and was traveling west up a dark clifton hill rd heading toward the train station. the street was dark because when i saw 2 greeny blue flashes in quick succesion with an electric type of noise following them i immeditly thought it was a street light that had flickered on i walked past. as i swiftly turned around i was this blue yellow flash and a tail of whitey blue turn to gold then red as it streaked across the eastern sky as iit arched south. from my view it was the size of a tennis ball but would be much larger up close. it was one of the most beuatiful things ive ever seen in the sky. i hope they find it. |
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By: propertysnaps82
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I was in Cardinia, It lit up the sky bright blue like and arc welder. Then there was a green blue phospre trail in the sky that faded away after about 20 seconds.
About 1 minutue after that we felt a strong breeze of hot air blow over us. My first thought from the hot air was that an atom bomb had gone off. i then saw another 3 shooting stars after that. They were normal and not as impressive of that first flash |
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By: vanoranje1
3/10/2007
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| mrlen76. I was out walking my dog in Westgate Park about 10pm last night when all of a sudden the landscape lit up around me as if someone had turned on a flood light. I looked to my left and saw the fireball you speak of. It was simply breathtaking. It was a white streak that left a trail across the sky. It was pure white to me, as if it was burning magnesium. Reports say it was as big as a tennis ball but the size of its head made me think it was it was far bigger than that. Unforgettable! |
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By: jrobo333
3/10/2007
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| The official reports keep saying "it's normal, u just hv to look up at the right time". We hv probably all seen shooting stars etc & yes you hv to be lucky & they disappear in seconds. This was totally different! I was looking down at my garden when everything just lit up. I was Not looking at the sky. I first thought it was a helicopter search lite, but no noise of course. It was like the lights had been turned on. Then I looked up and it was a bright white line across the sky that stayed there for maybe another 10 seconds. To light up the whole city (state?) like that it must have been either very big or very close. Either way it was definitely not 'Just a normal event'. |
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By: yiots15
3/10/2007
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| My God am I thankful I'm not the only one! I have asked everyone I know today if they saw what I saw... and no one had. It's exactly as jrobo writes, the entire night sky lit into day for approx 2 seconds(Think of a blast of light that made it feel like 6/7pm when it was 9.55pm. Lit up the sky from horizon to horizon). I observed a long trail of fire that was seen burning in the upper atmosphere, lasting atleast 8-10 seconds before it dissolved into the darkness of the sky. I would also have to disagree this thing was "tennis-ball" sized. I was standing almost directly horizontal to it and it was colossal in size and close to the earth indeed asmuch as to tear a hole in our upper atmosphere. I loved it! And if there's more to come I'm going to the same park I was walking my dog in Westall and watching the show all week(perfect vantage point 360 degree view of the sky and all four horizons). |
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By: aussco909
3/10/2007
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| I was outside listening to my ipod looking at the stars..scared the *** outta me |
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By: aussco909
3/10/2007
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| Wow I'm so glad I wasn't the only one to see it...I've stayed up until 5am watching the menears meteorite shower and that was nothing compared to this. It was exactly how you explained it but nothing on the news, how strange. I thought as well that it was like a search light but the bright green smoke trail this thing left was something outta an apocalypse movie and the light that lit up the sky like daylight...whatever it was it was a once in a lifetime spectacle. Hope it was nothing to do with missles and *** like that....wow |
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By: lioness0103
3/10/2007
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| This is really fascinating anyone watching tonight or has there been any news coverage. |
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By: lynnemelb
4/10/2007
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| Like others I too am pleased that I am not the only one who say the sky light up. I was travelling along Port Arlington Road near Curlewis Road (no street lights) with my three children in the car. Suddenly the whole sky lit up, it was like lights being turned on at a football stadium but bright blue/green in colour. As I was driving it freaked me out as I have never seen anything like it before in my life. My son said he saw what he thought was something exploding, we were left wondering if it was a plane crash or something similar. It wasn't just a ball of light in the sky it was the whole sky lighting up. When we arrived home I asked my husband if he had seen it but as he was sitting inside with the lights on I imagine the effect would not have been obvious in that setting. It really did happen and am pleased others witnessed it as I did. |
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By: yiots15
15/10/2007
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| Concerning news coverage, not a single report... from my knowledge. |
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By: aquaman609
23/10/2007
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| It was Hollywood filming the Next Superman movie |
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By: earlau
28/10/2007
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yes it went over powlett river about 2am in the morning
some campers saw it to |
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By: smokin_oldie_2
28/10/2007
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| This happenned when? |
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