Meteor mistaken for Fireworks

radiohead · Post by **radiohead** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:00 pm

Hi Guys,
About 45mins ago on channel 64, I heard VKI say they had received numerous calls about fireworks across the whole metro area and 8 calls from people in Northam. He said he was trying to call the observatory but couldn't get through because it was so busy with calls!
A few minutes before this the operator on the Freo channel said they had about 20 calls about fireworks in the area then he said it was a meteorite, it's natural phenomenom!

I saw a blue flash in the sky, I just thought it was a flash of lightning but it must've been the meteor... cool hehe

Coincidentally, meteors can affect radiowaves and bounce signals etc.

Check this link out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor

Jo

Post by **meg** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:32 pm

I saw the sky light up too then the radio station I was listening too in the car had a number of callers on the air.

Can't find any more info about it on the net yet though. Guess there'll be news reports in the morning.

Does anyone know a channel they might be using for this? And since it was apparently down south, any chance I'm going to be able to receive it in the hills of Perth?

pinkbosseslady · Post by **pinkbosseslady** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:31 pm

I was outside at the time for a mates bbq in palmyra and the sky started to light up a few times and we didn't believe it was lightening because there was no thunder it was quite freaky.

I dont think they would use any channel for this and it is in todays paper

nachoman · Post by **nachoman** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:34 pm

a couple of news articles:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17 ... 77,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 523140.htm

hitman · Post by **hitman** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:24 pm

I too saw this. It had a huge green tail and it flew across the sky ... I saw it from Northbridge and straight away knew it wasn't fireworks. It drifted for ages, flying along... quite scary!