Initial Sighting Reports

12 March 2013 - Hein Maij, Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa 12h30

5 seconds duration. East-West direction, I was facing South. Bright white light then explosion. Very white bright color.

12 March 2013 - Danni, Cape Town, SA 12:30

3-5 seconds duration. North-South direction. As bright as the Sun, it was white. It was burning and shooting down.

12 March 2013 - Leon Coetzee, Cape Town, SA 12:45

5 seconds duration. Southwest. Brilliant white colour, the whitest white, like a spot light. Part seemed to fall off. Very big white ball with long white tail. It looked like it was about 10 to 15 km away. Then an explosion, no more light just a huge ball of smoke. Most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life. Very exited. Don't know why it wasn't on the news. Didn't anybody else see it?????????

Cape Town - Residents across Cape Town claimed to have sighted a meteorite on Tuesday after what appears to have been a fireball "exploded" in the sky.

It is said to have been sighted just after noon. Nicola Loaring, an outreach astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory, said they had received about four or five reports.

The green and blue light with a white tail that was reported to them appeared to be that of "a fireball, which is a bright meteor".

Fireballs were caused by dust formed in space that enter Earth's atmosphere.

"There are two meteor showers in March with one peaking on March 13 and this could be related to that.

Loaring said another meteor shower would start later this month and peak in April."

"Meteor showers are best viewed in the morning. Up to eight an hour can be seen," Loaring said.

People shouldn't be alarmed since these were "common and predictable".

Company director John Houston captured part of the event on camera while he was driving on the N1 from Stellenbosch.

There was a "huge" explosion that left a white cloud close to the Durbanville hills, he said.

An amateur astronomer says a large hole in the ice on Dawe's Lake near Badger in central Newfoundland must have been caused by an object that fell from the sky.

"We've looked all around," said Jim Gillard, who runs the Twillingate Astronomical Observatory. "There don't appear to be anything else that could've caused this, except something that fell out of the sky."

The hole, which measures about 55 metres by 60 metres, was first discovered on Friday morning by a cabin owner in the area.

Cleveland - More than two dozen people from seven states - including Ohio -- reported seeing a fireball in the sky over the weekend.

The American Meteor Society posted Monday on its website that 25 people submitted reports about the sighting Saturday, which apparently happened at about 7 p.m. Nearly half of the reports were from Ohio.

Here are a few of the narratives submitted by the observers:

"I was driving on SR 39 heading NW when I saw this very bright white ball with a tail in my left peripheral vision. I turned to look, saw it had a tail, then disappeared for a split second, then a bright flash and it was gone. Amazing and beautiful." - Shelia H. / Millersburg, Ohio

"Smoky trail like a com trail. the head looked like it was glowing." - Andrea S. / Cleveland, Ohio

"This is the second time I have witnessed a meteor during the day. I regularly view meteor showers during nights they are expected. It was very exciting. Just happened to be looking in the right direction at the right time!" - Linda F. / Green, Ohio

NewsChannel5 reporter Paul Kiska saw the fireball, too. He also submitted a report:

"I've seen a few meteor showers and but never a fireball this huge, this bright, this beautiful!"

07 March 2013 - Keith Harvey, Fins (near Sur), Oman

10-20 seconds duration. It went from overhead to the horizon. Direction of travel: Southeast. Orange colour. As bright as Venus. Location: Approx. 23N 59E

07 March 2013 - Susie Barka, Muscat, Oman @ 19.15

5 seconds duration. North-South. It was a large elongated fireball, burning white hot, with an electric blue tail followed by a green band and then an orange band. It was as bright as the sun and very large.

Initial Reports

11 March 2013 - Lisa, Cape May, New Jersey, USA, around 4:45 am EST

I saw it for 2 seconds through a window facing southwest. It went straight down. It was white/blue color and as bright as the moon. It looked like a huge shooting star.

11 March 2013 - Bwas, Herndon, Virginia, USA 04:30 EST

2-3 seconds duration. North-south, from my left to right. I was facing south. It was low on the southern horizon and green in color. As bright as the moon. Awesome!

On March 6th, 2013, 13 seconds before midnight UT time, a beautiful fireball crossed the sky over southern Poland. It was first reported by Pawel Zareba at PFN station 42 in Blonie. A few hours, it emerged that quite a few PFN cameras captured the event. The fireball was also visible from the Czech Republic. According to preliminary calculations, the fireball arrived to us from the vicinity of Jupiter and faded away at an altitude of 68 km above the planet's surface.

Cleveland - A meteor was seen across parts of nine states Friday night.

Many reports were made to the American Meteor Society from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and southern Ontario, Canada.

The meteor was reported around 9 p.m. as people reported seeing a streak of light headed across the night sky. The American Meteor Society website showed the meteor apparently falling over southern lower Michigan.

More reports of meteors were received Saturday night around 6:45 p.m. although none of these reports have been confirmed at this time.

The following is video from Friday night's sighting:

A scientific team from Colombia was able to trace back the explosive space rock's origins using "simple trigonometry."

It's been nearly two weeks since a blazing meteor suddenly appeared over Russia's Ural region, and exploded seconds later over the city of Chelyabinsk. The destruction it caused is well documented: $33 million in estimated damage, 1,500 injured, and zero fatalities - amazing, considering the fireball detonated with 30 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

But where in heaven's name did the the thing come from to begin with?

Poring over crowd-sourced footage, researchers Jorge Zuluaga and Ignacio Ferrin from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, were able to use "simple trigonometry to calculate the height, speed, and position of the rock as it fell to Earth," says BBC News. More importantly, the duo was able to find out where Russia's most famous meteor was likely born.

Using astronomy software developed by the U.S. Naval Observatory, Zuluaga and Ferrin gathered enough data to trace the meteoroid's origins in outer space. The information included the meteor's relative angle to the horizon, the shadows it cast, and video timestamps of the rock's screaming descent.

Initial Meteor Sighting Reports

8 March 2013 - Jeff Massecar, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 21:15

2 seconds duration. S - N direction, I was facing west. It was a bright streak with a little bit of orange. As bright as a street lamp and it had a tail, very cool!

8 March 2013 - Gayann Reynolds, Oxford, Missouri, USA 21:15 EST

5 seconds duration - E-W direction, from my left to right. White color and orange flames. It was a bright as the moon. I saw flames!