Fernando Gómez Sánchez Sott.net Sun, 02 Jun 2019 20:20 UTC
In the early hours of Saturday June 1st 2019, a large fireball was seen above the skies of Southern Spain. The startling spectacle lasted approximately 3 seconds as the meteor/fireball turned night into day for a brief moment over the town of Benamaurel, Granada province.
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Plymouth residents say they were woken to "a massive bang" in the middle of the night - but no-one knows what it was.
Several people on social media said there was some activity in the St Judes area of the city during the early hours of Monday morning.
She tweeted: "there was a massive bang at 4.10am heard in st Jude's, anyone know what it was please? Scared the life outta me it was so loud."
Comment: A subsequent article reports that the loud bang was caused by fireworks. The noise was heard the Hooe, Laira, Mutley and St Jude's sections of Plymouth which encompasses about a 4-5 mile area. We doubt fireworks could cause such an uproar at 4:00 am.
"I sat up and opened the window, (I live in an attic room, so I have a very good view south over the PL4 area and over to PL1 and PL9) but couldn't see anything. I could hear seagulls flying away, squawking in surprise and fear.
"To me the boom noise sounded like a firework, but I saw no fireworks or lights in the sky.
One comment on social media read: "Defo a pretty firework, I saw it whilst working nights on Laira train depot."
Another said: " Sure there were fireworks going off between 3-4 o'clock I could hear from Mutley."
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 8 reports of a meteor flying over Germany and France on the night of May 22, 2019. AMS member Jurgen D. uploaded video footage of the event from his all-sky camera:
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received two reports of a meteor over northern Germany on May 24, 2019. AMS member A. Knofel uploaded video footage of the fireball as is flew over Tauche:
Kiwis and Australians witnessed a short but stunning light show in our skies this morning as a meteor burnt up in the atmosphere just after midnight.
At around 12.25am Northlanders were woken to a flight of light, a deep rumbling and a flash of colour flying off the burning meteor.
Locals took to social media to describe what they saw and heard, with many revealing they thought it was a supersonic aircraft.
"It was a meteor. I saw it really close overhead at Oromahoe shortly after midnight. I could see green, yellow, orange flames coming off the rock as it burnt up," described one Northlander.
"It was very close and incredibly bright and afterwards there was a long rumbling sound. It was certainly bright enough to be seen at Paihia and Kaikohe."
Steven Schubert abc.net.au Mon, 20 May 2019 09:26 UTC
A meteor has lit up the Northern Territory night sky with a flash that created "daylight" in Alice Springs and a noise that shook windows.
NT Police Duty Superintendent James O'Brien said officers received a phone call from an Alice Springs resident just after midnight, and quickly started checking their own CCTV vision.
The footage shows the meteor also shooting over Tennant Creek, more than 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs.
"We were a bit dubious about it," he said.
"But then we started looking around our CCTV and the one in Tennant Creek sees this beautiful purple light coming down.
"And the ones in Alice Springs basically show Alice Springs showing up like daylight. It was quite magnificent."
On May 20, 2019, the American Meteor Society received two reports of a meteor fireball over southern Wales. M. Statham uploaded video footage of the event:
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Comment: A subsequent article reports that the loud bang was caused by fireworks. The noise was heard the Hooe, Laira, Mutley and St Jude's sections of Plymouth which encompasses about a 4-5 mile area. We doubt fireworks could cause such an uproar at 4:00 am.