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Hundreds of people across Texas flocked online to report seeing a bright ball of light in the sky around 9 p.m. Saturday.
People in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Plano, Waco and Abilene, among other cities, described a brilliant flash or a white fireball. Some even caught colors and a sparkling tail.
Most reported seeing one, while a few spotted a second, smaller flash.
A witness in Georgetown said it looked like a firework about to explode in a report submitted to the American Meteor Society.
A Reddit poster said they were facing northwest from the University of Texas campus when they saw a bright light.
And a Smithville volunteer firefighter posted on Facebook that she spotted "the most brilliant, enormous falling star" begin as a green streak and then explode into a white fireball with orange projectiles.
© Facebook/Higgins Storm ChasingA photo of the meteor taken from a fixed camera at Archerfield. It was posted on Facebook by Higgins Storm Chasing.
The meteor was seen from Sydney to Gympie. Sightings have been reported in Toowoomba, Highfields, Chinchilla and across the Sunshine Coast.
Social media lit up with reports of the meteor.
Higgins Storm Chasing posted photos from fixed cameras across the state, including one at Archerfield in Brisbane and another at Redcliffe.
Ardoise - Laura Jean Clements was driving to her Nova Scotia home after playing cards with friends when she saw a bright fireball zip through the sky, trailed by a colourful green and orange tail.
She says she didn't know what it was, but chatter on social media sites led her to believe it was a meteor streak or fireball.
Clements says she spotted a round white ball with a tail as she travelled on Highway 101 near Ardoise, Hants County, late Tuesday.
She says her son told her there was talk on social media sites about a meteor being tracked across the sky on the eastern seaboard of the United States shortly before Clements' sighting at 11:10 p.m.
Boston meteorologist Matt Noyes reported there were sightings of a meteor-like greenish streak with orange tail all the way from Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia.
Sightings were also reported from Long Island, New York, Boston and Bar Harbor, Maine.
She says she didn't know what it was, but chatter on social media sites led her to believe it was a meteor streak or fireball.
Clements says she spotted a round white ball with a tail as she travelled on Highway 101 near Ardoise, Hants County, late Tuesday.
She says her son told her there was talk on social media sites about a meteor being tracked across the sky on the eastern seaboard of the United States shortly before Clements' sighting at 11:10 p.m.
Boston meteorologist Matt Noyes reported there were sightings of a meteor-like greenish streak with orange tail all the way from Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia.
Sightings were also reported from Long Island, New York, Boston and Bar Harbor, Maine.
Best of the Web: 'Church of the Meteorite' set up in Chelyabinsk, Russia - Founder claims surviving meteorite "contains set of moral and legal norms"
© RIA Novosti/Aleksandr KondratukLifting of the meteorite from Lake Chebarkul in Chelyabinsk.
While scientists have long confirmed that the space rock that hit Russia's Urals Mountains on February 15 is "an ordinary chondrite" (the most common type of meteorite that falls to Earth), the founder of the Church of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite believes it contains "a set of moral and legal norms that will help people live at a new stage of spiritual knowledge development."
Paranormalist Andrey Breyvichko says the meteorite, estimated at 10,000 metric tons, is so powerful it could actually trigger the Apocalypse.
The biggest of the seven major chunks that the giant rock fragmented into was discovered in the local Lake Chebarkul, forming an ice-hole 8 meters in diameter. An operation to recover it from the lake began on September 10, due to be completed by September 25. The chunk is covered by about 2.5 meters of sediments and is estimated to be 30 to 100cm long, weighing about 600kg.
© File photo
Hundreds of people saw the fireball shoot across the night sky before it exploded near their homes in Cwmbran, near Newport, South Wales.
Police and coastguards in South Wales had dozens of reports of a bright flash in the sky followed by a loud bang.
Homeowner Steve Edwards, 56, said: 'There was an enormous boom - It sounded like a bomb going off.
'The force of it shook the windows in my house, woke up my children and caused car alarms to start going off in the streets.
'I'm just glad none of it landed on my roof.'
Comment: While you are enjoying this 'wonder of nature', consider the fact that it's raining fireballs the world over:
How many falling fireballs and sun-grazing comets will it take to wake people up?
© Flickr user Iñaki Martínez de MarigortaStar Wars Mos Espa set in Tozeur.
A space object, likely a meteorite, fell on Sunday in a rural desert area of the Tataouine governorate in southern Tunisia, not far from the filming location of the first Star Wars movie, according to local radio reports.
Witnesses, according to Radio Tataouine, say that a bright object was seen falling from the sky at around 8 p.m. and then exploded on the ground. The streaking space object was reportedly visible from the city of Tataouine, the governorate's capital.
No injuries or damages have been reported from the rural, arid area.
Comment: It's very unlikely that it struck the ground. Based on the following local news report, translated by SOTT.net, it sounds like it exploded overhead.
It did, however, alarm the Tunisian government into sending its military to the area...
Multiple deafening overhead explosions from incoming meteor shake Tunisian desert
© Unknown
Radio Tataouine has revealed information about the fall of a meteorite on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 at around 20.15, in southern Tunisia at the town of Remada (Tataouine governorate). The locality was visited by Marzouki [editor: the interim President of Tunesia] a few days ago!
It happened shortly after 8 pm, when the deafening noise of three explosions rocked the entire region, which lies at the heart of a military buffer area created by the army.
Residents who feared the worst, given the magnitude of the explosions, were somewhat appeased by the intervention of the armed groups and the national guard who rushed to the scene of the impact and stated that it was actually a fall from a celestial body in this uninhabited area.
There is certainly a lot going on in this declared closed area!
Comment: We'll see how "appeased" the residents are when the army shows up after the next one's shockwaves hit terra firma!
Worried residents said the blast was followed by a sheet of white light which lit up the sky.
But after spending about two hours searching the area late on Monday night, police and fire service patrols found nothing to indicate what caused the bang, which was heard as far away as Acton and is said to have been so severe that it shook buildings.
Calls from concerned residents began flooding into North Wales Police at around 10pm.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was also alerted and sent three crews from the Wrexham station to Pandy.
Comment: Should we be worried? NASA certainly is. Their advice?
Pray...
Comment: Whoa, talk about 'Moses' déja vu!
Stone 'tablets' with moral laws contained in them?
Thunderbolts in the sky?
Are we witnessing the origins of religion in real-time re-formation?
This story is exactly why everyone needs to read Comets and Horns of Moses!
Celestial Intentions: Comets and the Horns of Moses