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Meteor Flash
Who lives in Guateng South Africa? and saw that bright light yesterday night?
About 11 o clock there was this bright blue flash of light..about a second long, it faded in and was gone but it turned the night to day. seriously the whole sky not one point.
I am sure it wasn't lightning...and a lot of people are wondering about a meteorite or meteor impact.
Anyone have information on this?
Its the Leonid Meteor Shower and it is also very visible in some parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.
BRIGHT Bolide Meteor Flash from November 18th 2009 just after 12AM Payson Utah
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My mom thinks she saw a meteor over Northwestern Ontario (Near Thunder Bay) tonight. How can we find info?
She said it was light a bright bluish flash with a trail behind it. It was also not even dusk yet, so it must have been bright for it to be seen in the sky because there wasn't a lot of contrast. She also said that it was going way faster than a plane with a jet stream behind it. How can we find more info? If other people saw it, or what it might have been?
Meteors actually appear all the time in the sky; on a typical night hundreds of meteors might flash by. We modern people are unfortunately cursed by "light pollution" - the haze and ambient light from traffic lights, street lamps, cars, etc. - which prevents us from seeing a good deal of what goes on in the sky. As such, most meteors go unreported and are not catalogued in any way - there's simply too many of them to track and label.
There don't appear to be any major meteor showers going on currently. It's POSSIBLE that your mom saw the afterburner of a supersonic jet, which would be bright blue and would definitely show before dusk, and which would move much faster than a normal aeroplane. A meteor would appear only for an instant (a tenth of a second at most).