Video of apparent meteorite via Youtube:
Update: A user on Twitter, Sarah Brown, says she saw a meteorite burn up “just meters” before the ground near the Cottesloe Golf Course.
Sarah said she saw a “streamer of bright white blue light with a round rainbow coloured head” around 9.30am. The same time hundreds, if not thousands of other people, saw the ‘fireball’ over Perth and SW W.
It “looked like burning magnesium,” Sarah said.
We saw a meteorite burn up just metres before the ground just near the Cottesloe Golf Course @tweetperth#shinywhitelight#meteor#perth — Sarah Brown (@Sarey1973) March 9, 2015
@tweetperth it was like a streamer of bright white blue light with a round rainbow coloured head. Looked like burning magnesium.
— Sarah Brown (@Sarey1973) March 9, 2015
Nine News Perth cameraman caught the fireball on his dashcam driving to work.
People across Perth and the south-west of Western Australia have reported a huge ‘fireball’ streaking across the sky around 9.30am local time, Monday, 9 March 2015.
People flooded talkback radio and social media to report the ‘fireball’ that was seen by people across Perth and as far away as Margaret River.
People reported that they saw a ‘fireball’ to the north of the city on a day where there was literally not a cloud in the sky.
People react to the sighting on Twitter:
Wow! Just saw a fireball to the north of Perth! Awesome! #fireballperth
— James Holbeach (@opplevelse) March 9, 2015
Anybody have info on the bright light in the Perth Sky 5 minutes ago? Where did it go down? — Angelique Lee (@angeliquelee) March 9, 2015
Saw the #Perth #fireball from Margaret River north
— David Litchfield (@dlitchfield) March 9, 2015
There’s reports of a massive flash in the sky above #Perth about 10 mins ago. Any #Perth people saw it? #flash #sky — Sas Loos (@SasLoos) March 9, 2015
