Those funny lights in the sky!!!

Meteorite? Once had one light up the area I was in during a meteorite shower. One of them even looked like a parachute flare. No sound at all. Eery.

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.

A few years back I was camping with my kids at Angle Crossing near the ACT and in the night there was an earsplitting shriek from the heavens and a dull thump.... what it was I'll never know but it sounded like an artillery shell enroute shipping plug intact...

Heard on the TV the other day ,someone saying that the meterites (shooting stars) are commonly just the size of a pea but coming into the earths atmosphere at many thousands of km/hr per hour they mostly vaporise in seconds (fortunately for us).
Sounds like some of the ones above could have been a bit larger?

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.