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A blazing object blasted through the Earth's atmosphere over Queensland on Sunday night, leaving some witnesses startled by its size.
Reports of a slow-moving double-headed meteor with an orange tail have been reported from Redcliffe to the Gold Coast on an
astronomy blog.But others think it was more likely man-made space junk.
Donna O'Kearney had been driving north from Canungra on the Gold Coast when about 7:37pm she saw a huge flaming object soaring through the sky.
"I thought it was a plane coming down and I couldn't understand why there was no noise," she said, saying it looked as big as a 747.
"All I could see was a blinding white light at the front going back to orange.
"You just couldn't take your eyes off it, it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing."
She said it took as long as 10 seconds to make its way across the sky before burning out in the distance.
Meteors are not uncommon sights in Australia, with more than 500 being found on our soil in the past 40 years and even more passing overhead, but the massive size of last night's one was an unusual sight for many.