UNRELATED to the local UFO sighting, residents from Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour felt the effects of what is thought to be two meteorites the size of basketballs entering the earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday morning.
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Locals are reporting that they heard a loud explosion or bang and their homes shook due to the shock wave, with a bright blue orange light seen across the entire Mid North Coast.
Social media networks lit-up across the Mid North Coast with many people trying to understand what happened.
“I was outside when it happened and I thought it was like a bomb when it went off and I swear I felt the heat come off it,” Kempsey’s Troye Barker said.
Jeanie Redman from Temagog said the light was like stadium bright inside her home.
“There was a flash of intense bright light followed by two lesser flashes but I didn’t hear any noise,” while Macksville local Karen Perkins said the explosion woke her up and it shook the entire house.
Dave Reneke from the Mid-North Coast astronomy group said in his opinion it was a fireball from a rogue meteor.
“To me this was a huge bit of rock that could have been the size of a basketball of maybe bigger,” Mr Reneke said.
As it enters the earth’s atmosphere it travels up to 30km per second and the rock starts to melt, the pressure builds up until it blows itself apart, creating a boom like thunder.
“There is no chance it could have hit the ground as it would have blown up into smithereens. People always report different flashing colours when it does explode.”
Mr Reneke said it was a rare but not unusual event, particularly as Australia was coming into a period of meteor activity or showers caller the ‘Orionids’.
“It could be most likely proceeding that.”
