Green light in jozi sky

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Johannesburg - It was a meteor which lit up the skies over Johannesburg and Pretoria on Saturday night, an astronomer has confirmed.

"What people saw last night was almost certainly a meteor," Claire Flanagan an astronomer at the Johannesburg Planetarium said on Sunday.

People saw a bright "greenish, bluish" light heading towards Pretoria at about 23:00 on Saturday night.

"It moved over the Gauteng Province towards Limpopo... it travels very fast and was about 90km up," said Flanagan.

The meteor was a hot topic of discussion in the forum on mybroadband.co.za.

"I saw a light flash the sky at about 20:00, at first I thought I was imagining it, but my friend also saw it," wrote someone who saw the meteor.

"... Maybe it's people getting abducted by aliens...I walked in the house looked out [and] the sky was lit. It looked how it normally [does] at 05:00."

Another wrote: "I [saw] it too in Hartbeespoort dam. Almost looked like daylight for a few seconds, not sure if it was a meteor or not... pretty cool..."

Others claimed to have heard and seen a "bright explosion".

"I was in Lonehill sitting outside with some friends at around 23:00 when my buddy noticed flashes in the distance. After he pointed, we looked up and that's when the sky lit up like day for a second or two. The sky actually went blue."

Flanagan said if a bang was heard, it meant that the meteor had disintegrated in the sky.

"The speed which it was travelling at would have caused it to burn and then disintegrate," she said.

Another user on the website said: "I think you guys should relax. Its Wikus Van der Merwe and his prawns," in reference to the South African-made movie District 9 which sets Johannesburg as the home of alien creatures.

Flanagan said that if the meteor had landed it would not have caused a major impact.

She could say how big it was as it was unexpected, and not connected with any kind of shower, but said the planetarium would be investigating the incident.
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saw a very bright iridium flare once... also lit up the entire garden..... cool thing is you can predict them.
 
Catal said:
He saw it at approximately 23:02 and he really looked freaked out, but he heard absolutely nothing so I don't think it was a meteorite and for the same light to be seen across 600 km I guess it must have been a solar event of sorts.
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Soz playing cod 4 at that time:D
 
Yes Nokkie, I did see the flashes in Wonderboom South but was sitting under a lapa so didn't see the sky but we pondered where the thunder soudn was and that there werent cumulus clouds about and you need to stop giving us Pretorians a stupid badge by siding with genetic.

genetic needs to chillax and and Gory51 is correct and genetic should address the issue at hand with his little drawing vs Jozi and not go of about the slightest mention/error about grammar/spelling to invilidate his anal retentiveness.
 
I saw it too! At around 23:00 from Lenasia. It lasted too long,and was too constant to be lightning. The night sky lit up, turned from black to pale blue/white for a few seconds. It was definately not as instantanious as lightning. At that moment, the sky was too bright for even a single star to be seen. It was a spectacular sight!
 
Me and my bf was watching a movie and I also saw the light outside and thought that it was lightning and went to the window to check but it happend to fast and I never heard the "lightning strike".

Going to watch the news now and record it
 
Iridium Flares

To see where & when there will be Iridium flares, visit Heavens-above.com
 
bright light / meteor?

I was at the Limpopo Lipadi Game Reserve in Botswana 21/11/2009.This is on the Limpopo River.
Around 23h00 here was a very bright light that streaked across the sky
about 10 minutes later there was an explosion that shook the building we were in. It was a very very big and loud explosion. probably further north in Botswana.
We thought it was a meteor that had impacted. Anyone know more?
 
I've been watching that TV Mini-Series by Stephen Spielberg called "Taken" over this weekend... How fitting we have green things streaking across our skies! :D
 
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