The Meteor of 21 November, 2009

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 22 Nov 2009, 00:34

At just before 11pm, a massive burning meteor flew over South Africa, lighting up the sky in a bright display of blue, green and yellow light. Reports came in from places all over, Pietermaritzburg (KZN), Thabazimbi (North West), Free state, Potch (NW). There are reports of "something" crashing in Pietersburg (Limpopo).

This is how I have the story at the moment. Who else saw it? It was amazingly bright. If you saw it, where were you at the time?

THE SKY IS FALLING! ITS MEGATRON!!!!

Edit:

Reports of light in Upington, and something crashing in Pietermaritzburg.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 22 Nov 2009, 00:36

Aliens.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 22 Nov 2009, 00:56

Hax. Seriously, no meteor, no aliens, just hax.

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 22 Nov 2009, 07:21

Earth is in a meteor-rain at the moment. I believe it is called the leonites. It is the remains of an old comet.

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 22 Nov 2009, 07:24

Must admit I did not look at the sky last night. Watched movies and went to bed early.

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 22 Nov 2009, 07:29

Tribble wrote:Must admit I did not look at the sky last night. Watched movies and went to bed early.

Was the meeting THAT tiring?

Tribble · Post by **Tribble** » 22 Nov 2009, 07:32

Lol nope but my whole day was. Won't go into details but I didn't stop the entire day. And bed is such a good place to go when darkness descends (and I am talking 10:30pm here)

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 22 Nov 2009, 07:37

K

Was just wondering

gsm500 · Post by **gsm500** » 22 Nov 2009, 09:06

I was up at that time and I did see this event. It was an amazing sight. I saw red and green lights that looked like they were moving towards earth and a second or two later the whole sky lit up. Really freaky stuff. This was around 22:55 on the 21st of Nov 2009.

Bronem · Post by **Bronem** » 22 Nov 2009, 09:39

Hi We live in Johannesburg near Fourways and we all saw it - was at about 11pm and we were standing outside - about 7 of us - was beautiful

Post by **Stuart** » 22 Nov 2009, 10:14

I thought I saw the sky light up outside about that time last night, but I was inside, so it may just have been my imagination.

aidi · Post by **aidi** » 22 Nov 2009, 11:25

Hi
I saw it. We were at Middelburg Mpumalanga and saw a bright green light then it tuned to yellow and red as it went down. This was in a NE direction. It could be that it crashed near Pietersburg if it didn't burn out. It was around 23h00. I agree it was amazing!

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 22 Nov 2009, 11:34

How big must the object have been for it to light up the whole of SA? Does anyone have news about impacts?

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 22 Nov 2009, 11:40

http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/article ... x?id=26926

Couldn't find anything else yet

Post by **Anthro** » 22 Nov 2009, 12:21

Smalville ?

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 22 Nov 2009, 15:05

capanno wrote:How big must the object have been for it to light up the whole of SA? Does anyone have news about impacts?

The old Transvaal IS NOT the whole of SA!

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 22 Nov 2009, 16:08

oh, im sorry. let me rephrase that:

capanno wrote:How big must the object have been for it to light up most of SA?

Is it ok if I call this area "most"?

Mykhal · Post by **Mykhal** » 22 Nov 2009, 17:22

capanno wrote:oh, im sorry. let me rephrase that:

capanno wrote:How big must the object have been for it to light up most of SA?
Is it ok if I call this area "most"?

I can live with that!

I did not know it was so widely seen - the report i've read only mentions Gauteng!

Post by **Ron2K** » 22 Nov 2009, 19:45

Saw the effects of it myself. Was with Monty and Prime last night at some friends of theirs. We were under a covered verandah, but it had two skylights. There was a blue flash through the skylights at (I think) around 23:00 - we all thought it was lightning, but didn't hear any thunder afterwards.

wonderful lights · Post by **wonderful lights** » 22 Nov 2009, 21:27

i'm from a small town in kzn called dannhauser and yester my sister and some family said that they saw strange lights in the sky. everyone laughed them off and thought they wrere crazy until i read this! amazing! anybody know what it was?

Post by **Stuart** » 22 Nov 2009, 21:57

The current theories are Clark Kent, aliens (possibly jamin_za's family) or the arrival of the cows who have come to rule the planet.

PureFire · Post by **PureFire** » 22 Nov 2009, 23:00

i saw it tooo... only i saw bright white light.
i thought it was my imagination, until i heard other people talkin g bout it this morning!
aparrently it was seen right into mozambique as well!

Prime · Post by **Prime** » 22 Nov 2009, 23:00

Ron2K wrote:Saw the effects of it myself. Was with Monty and Prime last night at some friends of theirs. We were under a covered verandah, but it had two skylights. There was a blue flash through the skylights at (I think) around 23:00 - we all thought it was lightning, but didn't hear any thunder afterwards.

True. The thought never even crossed my mind

Piece of an old space station or satellite falling to earth are my guesses

Post by **Stuart** » 22 Nov 2009, 23:13

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

<ot> If you ask me, that's some pretty substandard reporting. Or possibly it's just the intelligence of the MyBB forumites coming through. </ot>

PureFire · Post by **PureFire** » 22 Nov 2009, 23:25

what makes me think that its not quite a meteor is the fact that if there was some type of crash, why was it not broadcast publicly over the news that a meteor crashed. also, with it blazing most of the south african sky, why did no one hear the crash or explosion? surely somethinng of that magnitude would send quite an audible sound ringing through the air for quite some distance?!

i have read it was seen as far north as gaborone...

http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/2 ... er-at.html

as low as the central karoo:

http://www.sarl.org.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4709

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