Those funny lights in the sky!!!
Submitted: Monday, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:58
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Member - Uncle (NSW)
Hi Everyone,
forgot to mention in our latest blog update, onthe second night of being out at
Red Bluff,I'd been doing some random star gazing after tea. We'd been sitting under the awning and every now and then I'd walk outside and just
check out all those stars every so often.
I got up to walk out from under the awning on the last occasion, when walking out, I noticed all the ground around
Red bluff was an electric blue/ whiteish colour. At the same time , heard a loud scream from the office area, which was just back from us, and it was one of the managers sons freaking out over what I was looking at. A quick glance up into the heavens, and there was this massive white ball, with flames trailing behind, for a split second then GONE!!.
Poor
young guy from the office didnt know what it was and tried to explain to mum and dad, after waking them up, what it looked like.
Anyone seen one before??? Was it a meteorite burning up?? I've seen some great shooting stars before , but nothing ever as good as this one!! Lit the whole ground area up like a fireworks going off. Great stuff. Cheers Unc. PS have some great pics of
the Bluff but have to wait till tech problem gets sorted i think.
Reply By: Member - Phillip S (WA) - Monday, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:51
Monday, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:51
Had a similar expirience a few months back....traveling
home from work, I was driving and the guy who travels with me was talking to me, when as I was watching the road ahead, suddenly saw a meteorite do it's earth entry thing....
bright light, long flame tail and then seem to bleep ter and dissappear all before I could interupt him to get him to see it too...seen a few now...a lot far away and maybe 1or 2 close enough to light up where you are...but all too quick to photos...
A few years back there was a news report where one actually struck a parked car, about the size of a cricket ball...had a few pictures...guy was moaning about insurance...glad he wasn't in it when it happen...would have needed new pair of jocks I reckon.
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Reply By: ozwasp - Monday, Jun 09, 2008 at 20:10
Monday, Jun 09, 2008 at 20:10
Hi mate
Six years ago I was working on nightshift as a Driller's offsider halfway between Ayers
Rock and
Laverton in WA, at a place just south of the Jamieson community. The place is in the middle of nowhere and we couldn't even get AM radio reception.
One night at about 11pm I had to go for a water run to the
bore, as we were running low on water to drill with and so took the water truck off for the 2-3km journey to the
bore while the driller and other offsider kept on working.
Anyway I got to the
bore and started the pump and sat in the cab while the truck filled up for about 15mins. When it finished I turned the pump off and was just about ready to go back when I saw these 2 red lights just up from the horizon in the distance moving in strange directions in the one area. I looked for a couple of minutes and they finally went down below a ridge. I'm not sure if what ever if was came down to earth or went beyond the horizon as they were in the distance.
As you can imagine I was sh-it scared so didn't hang around any longer. I was glad to leave the place a few days later and not go back. I didn't mention it to my work mates, but a couple of Drillers I talked to said they had seen strange lights out that way beyond
Laverton.
Will.
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