Green light in jozi sky

Crayton said:
We also saw the light in Naaboomspruit, pretty hard not to see it, the bushveld was pitch black, note that the colour seems to be changing depending how far it had traveled, we got a stunning colouring of blue, then yellow and orange colouring for about 5 sec then as fast as it appeared it dissappeared. But guys in Joeys say they saw blue and green?
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Wait till the nazi's get hold of that...apparently only certain abbreviations are suitable to use here..
 
Muldersdrift

We were at a wedding when it happened. Thought the new Ford Focus had arrived.

I can't believe there isn't one picture... Pity.
 
Meteorite

Well, I live on a farm about 8km's from the Botswana border, and the noise and light had me convinced 'something' fell right behind our house on the mountain.
Ofcourse I thought I was dreaming and only realised the next morning after neighbours phoned to check in on us 'after hearing the huge explosion' our side, I realised I wasn't dreaming.
We did drive up the mountain to check if we see anything, but I suppose it won't be so easy to spot. But I'm convinced if it was a meteorite, it either disentegrated in the sky above us (Botswana Border) or, it had to hit somewhere close, If I think of the shockwafes that went through our house, and rattled the windows!
 
This is interesting. I was outside at 23:00 and noticed a bright flash in the distance to the NE. Thought it was lightning but the skies were clear. Wonder if it could have been this? If it is the distance is amazing.

As an aside a meteor normally tends to mostly consists of iron/metal. It's pressure that makes it burn up, not friction. It's only a meteorite once it hits the ground.
 
had 6 friends over for a late late early morning dinner. saw the green light in the burning sky, definitely not a fire cracker. looked like a search light at first but then turned red and the whole sky lit up in daylight green? after that it disappeared in th clouds.?what was this?
 
I saw it!

I was driving on Main road in lonehill going towards Midrand. I saw it pass over us. I was actually scared. Instead of hearing a bang when I anticipated it to land, it was silent and lit up the surrounding area like day. This was only for about a second or two. If anyone is looking for any evidence of it, they might find it about 100 meters North of main road in lonehill (close to the prison).
 
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Doline said:
Well, I live on a farm about 8km's from the Botswana border, and the noise and light had me convinced 'something' fell right behind our house on the mountain.
Ofcourse I thought I was dreaming and only realised the next morning after neighbours phoned to check in on us 'after hearing the huge explosion' our side, I realised I wasn't dreaming.
We did drive up the mountain to check if we see anything, but I suppose it won't be so easy to spot. But I'm convinced if it was a meteorite, it either disentegrated in the sky above us (Botswana Border) or, it had to hit somewhere close, If I think of the shockwafes that went through our house, and rattled the windows!
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:eek: awesome!
all these stories rock man....
 
OK, the one that I saw was small and there was no sound really. Maybe there were more. The bigger one sounds hectic though....
 
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RoyZor said:
OK, the one that I saw was small and there was no sound really. Maybe there were more. The bigger one sounds hectic though....
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what i saw was definitely large, absolutely no sound whatsoever though..
seriously expected the ground ahead of me to start rolling up armageddon style...
 
ok my question is this.... if something so small can cause ALOT of interest and questioning, why dont Nasa etc have a foresight into these meteors? Or am i watching too many movies :p

i mean imagine it impacted and killed a few hundred people. people around the world would be like WTF?!
 
Positively Negative said:
ok my question is this.... if something so small can cause ALOT of interest and questioning, why dont Nasa etc have a foresight into these meteors? Or am i watching too many movies :p

i mean imagine it impacted and killed a few hundred people. people around the world would be like WTF?!
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They do have an organization that is tasked with tracking all near Earth objects of a certain size. NASA's NEO does just that and if I'm not mistaken NORAD also has a role to play.

The problem is that space is so HUGE. It's easy to miss something. A few years back I read that they can only actually monitor around 10% of the sky at one time.

I also found a stunning Youtube video showing the Utah meteor:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFejgd9bSE[/ame]
 
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20091123220255295C230969

The Johannesburg Planetarium has requested footage captured by members of the public of a meteor that sped over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Botswana on Saturday.

"The planetarium and the impact cratering research group at Wits University would be very keen to obtain copies of any video recordings of the meteor seen burning up over South Africa," astronomer Claire Flanagan said on Monday.

"If footage from enough security cameras is available, it could possibly be used to work out where the meteor came from, how fast it was travelling, how high it was, and where it ended up."

Flanagan confirmed on Sunday that it was a meteor that lit up the skies and left many people looking up in awe.

People saw a bright "greenish, bluish" light heading towards Pretoria at about 11pm on Saturday night.

Flanagan said the meteor moved over Gauteng towards Limpopo, travelling at upwards of 90km/h.

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

"I saw a light flash the sky at about 8pm, at first I thought I was imagining it, but my friend also saw it... 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 5am," wrote one user.

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 11pm 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 not say how big it was as it was unexpected, and not connected with any kind of shower.

Flanagan can be contacted on 011-717-1390 by anyone who has footage of the event. - Sapa
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Yes, I saw the light around 10PM from Midrand as well, while I was walking with my baby.
 
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