Investigations are underway after an apparent meteor was spotted over Gauteng over the weekend.
http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/article ... x?id=26960
People saw the bright light between 10:30pm and 11pm on Saturday night, heading towards the north of Pretoria. Eyewitness News has also received reports of the meteor being spotted as far as Botswana.

Witnesses said it was a spectacular sight.

“There was a very bright explosion, where the sky lit up as if it were day time,” said one eyewitness.

“All of a sudden we saw this blue light then a huge ball of fire,” said another person

The Johannesburg Planeterium’s Claire Flanagan said there was no doubt the object was a meteor.

Astronomers and scientists are still trying to find out where the meteor landed.

Meteor lights up Gauteng

http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/article204553.ece
It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed.
"What people saw last night was almost certainly a meteor," Claire Flanagan an astronomer at the Johannesburg Planetarium said.
People saw a bright "greenish, bluish" light heading towards Pretoria at about 11pm on Saturday night.
"It moved over the Gauteng Province towards Limpopo... it travels very fast and was about 90 kilometres up," said Flanagan.
The meteor was a hot topic of discussion in the forum on mybroadband.co.za.
"I saw a light flash the sky at about 8pm, at first I thought I was imagining it, but my friend also saw it," wrote someone who saw the meteor.
"... Maybe it’s people getting abducted by aliens...I walked in the house looked out [and] the sky was lit. It looked how it normally [does] at 5am."
Another wrote: "I [saw] it too in Hartbeespoort dam. Almost looked like daylight for a few seconds, not sure if it was a meteor or not... pretty cool..."
Others claimed to have heard and seen a "bright explosion".

"I was in Lonehill sitting outside with some friends at around 11pm when my buddy noticed flashes in the distance. After he pointed, we looked up and that's when the sky lit up like day for a second or two. The sky actually went blue."
Flanagan said if a bang was heard, it meant that the meteor had disintegrated in the sky.
"The speed which it was travelling at would have caused it to burn and then disintegrate," she said.
Another user on the website said: "I think you guys should relax. It’s Wikus Van der Merwe and his prawns," in reference to the South African-made movie 'District 9' which sets Johannesburg as the home of alien creatures.
Flanagan said that if the meteor had landed it would not have caused a major impact.
She could say how big it was as it was unexpected, and not connected with any kind of shower, but said the planetarium would be investigating the incident.

@savwafair2012

videos you posted are not showing meteor, but UFO
1) Light Flash is TOO QUICK
2) Light Flash is BLUE
3) reporters know its not a meteor
4) Its an UFO, Not a meteor

peace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOcRCSxeS4

Footage from the security camera of the Mustek building in Midrand of the meteor shower that took place on 21 Nov 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUZrEaj87kc

On 8 October 2009 an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed.
However, the blast caused no damage on the ground because of the high altitude, 15 to 20 kilometres above Earth's surface, says astronomer Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOyd1e6yxUk

Hundreds of people reported seeing a spectacular fireball or meteorite over the Netherlands on Tuesday, October 14, 2009.

A massive meteor has been seen streaking across the clear skies of northern Europe, with many thinking the planet was about to be invaded by aliens, others thought that an impromptu fireworks display had begin.

Tens of thousands of people across northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium are said to have witnessed the meteor event around 7pm in the evening local time. The massive event even sent out a super sonic sound boom that rattled the entire region.

Either it is Rogue Asteroid season.

or we are really entering into the debris field of the Galaxy's tail and garbage is being flung at us...

Now i know im not a scientist and no expert in the field of meteors ...


BUT and u knew this was coming ....LOL ....im just a disbeliever in TPTB i guess....

i thought meteors hurtled towards the planet and if they were small enough they would burn up in the stratosphere/ionisphere etc... before they reached the surface and if they were quite big they would only be partially disintergrated and they would punch into the atmosphere maybe with a small explosion of sound due to the sound waves and speed travelled but do they really explode like the ones that have been seen in this footage?

and if they have been as big as the meteorites are suggested they were why have we seen no further investigation into where they landed /the meteor crater surely one of these meteors would of created one?... or are TPTB covering something else up ?.....what do you think ...?


those are big explosions u would of thought there would be a lot of debris........
and i thought some of them appeared to be within our atmosphere.and if they wernt well then they were huge..............................so then wheres the rest of it if it was that big?.......................anybody else have any thoughts on this ?....



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Good questions, but I think it's pretty common for meteorites to make a big flash and bang without any debris necessarily hitting the earth.

But of course, sometimes they do hit. This one, apparently, was "blinding" when it hit the atmosphere:

http://www.wellandtribune.ca/ArticleDis ... UN%20MEDIA