A huge ball of light and fire filled the night sky as a meteor streaked toward Earth.
Residents in Perth, Australia, saw the spectacular light show Saturday night. The meteor left a bright tail in its wake.
Karun Cowper, who was enjoying a meal with his family at Halls Head, caught the meteor on his video camera.
Jamnagar: Even as mysterious blasts and tremors continue to rock villages in Lalpur and Jamnagar talukas, the IMD team camping in the region has not been able to draw any conclusion. Declaring that the blasts are not related to seismic activity, the IMD team said that from now on geologists should observe the disturbances.
Senior IMD team member K C Kondal said, "Our observation suggests that the blast and jerks experienced in the region are not related to any earthquake." Elaborating further, Kondal said, "An earthquake produces waves from which its epicentre and intensity can be measured. But here, the phenomenon is localised and superficial. Jerks observed here are limited to small areas and often not recorded."
10NBCWed, 23 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
It sounded and felt like an earthquake, but what exactly caused houses in Ontario, Wayne County to shake Monday night. People in several neighborhoods say they felt the ground moving and think an earthquake hit their town. New York State does have fault lines but there are none in Wayne County.
Around 7:00 p.m. Monday, some people in Wayne County say they thought they were in the twilight zone. "I think I walked down the hallway over here and I heard bah-boom and the house shook. The house actually shook in the front," Joan Sharpstene of Ontario said. She was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters when this phenomenon happened. "It felt like a tremor like the whole house actually shook in the front," Sharpstene said.
Residents report hearing loud blasts in different parts of country, claim their homes shook as result; IDF says in response no unusual military activity that may have caused blasts detected, Seismology Institute says no earthquakes recorded; Rita from Herzliya: I don't buy it. They should just tell us what is causing these shockwaves and blastsRaanan Ben-Zur
Just three weeks after dozens of readers from across Israel told Ynet about unusually loud booms and tremors throughout the night, residents again reported hearing loud boom-like sounds in different parts of the country Tuesday, mainly in coastal regions, claiming their homes shook as a result.
Police officials confirmed people reported they heard explosions, but added that the source remains unknown.
Man hopes 1,430-pound meteorite will land him seven-figure payout
Bunch said he had spotted a meteor himself the other evening. It streaked across the sky while he was smoking a cigarette on his porch. Bunch, the breed of smalltown banker who wears overalls and rides a Harley-Davidson, has come to view such phenomena with new appreciation.
Kingston - When Steve Arnold heard that grapefruitsized meteorites were pelting a Chicago suburb two years ago, he rushed to the scene and stayed 44 days, meticulously plotting strike points and sweeping streets curb to curb with a detector fashioned from a magnet and broomstick.
He got some funny looks, but he left with 113 meteorites.
In the deserts of Oman on a similar excursion, Arnold and wife, Qynne, bounced over the sands in a Jeep looking for cosmic treasures. "We'd see a black spot on the horizon, and it would either be camel poop or a meteorite," Arnold said. They scooped up 151 of the rocks. Of the 6.4 billion people who live on Earth, no more than two dozen are full-time meteorite hunters. Arnold, 39, of Kingston, has been one since 1990, earning enough to finance his adventures and to sustain a rustic lifestyle for his family.
Paola Farer
9news.comThu, 10 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Douglas County - 9News received numerous calls Thursday night about a bright light dropping across the southern sky.
The calls came in from the north and south Denver Metro area. One person from Fort Lupton wrote, "I saw a green glowing light in the southern sky. It looked like it was falling through layers of clouds. I did not see it hit the ground. The whole event took maybe one or two seconds to happen."
The reports started coming in around 8:30 p.m. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said it planned on investigating the reports received from residents there.
Some Riverina residents, in southern New South Wales, feared they had witnessed a plane crash early last night when they saw an apparent meteor shower. [...]
"Oh, there was a big ball of flame falling out of the sky ... it would have been about 6.30pm [AEDT] and would've been north, north-east of where we were. It didn't last very long, you had to be quick to see it," he said.
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