The mystery behind the lights which appeared over WA skies early this morning has been solved. The Perth Observatory says the lights were caused by a meteorite building up in the atmosphere.
Coloured lights could be seen in the sky from Bunbury to Geraldton around 5.30am.
Residents contacted the Observatory and the WA Water Police, looking for answers.
They described the colours of the lights as green, white and yellow.
Perth Observatory technical officer and astro-photographer Richard Tonello said the green flashes were a tell-tale sign of a meteorite.
"The same thing happened in November 2005 from Augusta to Lake Grace," he said.
The lights were about 100km above the surface of Earth.
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Living not so far from Perth, this is interesting in that I heard 2 sonic booms in the last few days. One Friday afternoon at 4.05pm and one early Saturday evening at 6.20pm. Timing wise the last one I heard would seem to be just 12 hours before this colored light appeared. Having read the articles from Laura and Clube etc, I thought that it most likely was meteors, as there is no activity related to mining or otherwise that would make these booms. Coincidence?