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Posted on 06/03/2018 3:14:58 PM PDT by BBell
A local farmer near Ottosdal in North West has shared CCTV footage of what appears to be a meteorite hitting the earth at 18:49 Saturday night.
According to a member of a neighbourhood watch, who shared the video with OFM News on social media, they were doing night patrol in the area of Hartbeesfontein when they received reports from Klerksdorp, approximately 30 kilometres away. People reportedly saw ‘a light’ falling from the sky and initially thought it was an aeroplane.
He told OFM News that everyone came together and started searching, but shortly thereafter received the CCTV footage from Barend Swanepoel and Wikus van Zyl from a farm near Bospoort and Gardau, an area not too far from Klerksdorp. On the video it appears to be more like a meteor that has fallen.
What could have possibly been the same meteor was lighting up the sky in China earlier Saturday evening.
According to Itv News, witnesses were stunned by a dazzling light which quickly took the form of a “flaming ball” over Yunnan Province. The Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said it was a meteor.
Social media has also made mention of a meteorite that was discovered and given the temporary label – ZLAF9B2 – which reportedly slammed into the atmosphere over Botswana.
According to a physicist and Very-long-baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio astronomer, Marshall Eubanks, this is a rare case of discovery before impact.
OFM News last night tracked the path of meteorite ZLAF9B2, with a projected diameter of between 0.5m and 3,5m, as plotted by Bill Grey on Twitter.
That’s a big Coke bottle.
The gods must be crazy pissed.
Just added wealth to that country.
Some guy on Coast-to-Coast last night was talking about how to set a metal detector to find meteorites.
Awful show. They will not come again, the Art Bells with the beautiful shows.
Like flaming globes! It is just as you prophesied!
“ Australia”
Fore!
I remember watching a show about these guys who hunted meteorites in the desert. They knew what to look for and how to set their metal detectors. I never realized how much money there is in meteorites. Find a couple a year and you were set for a year.
A METEOR falls to earth. A fragment of that meteor after it falls is a METEORite.
Saw one doing what looked like a slow cruise in the day sky over Rochester, NY back in ‘60s (maybe ‘67 or so). Was outside with a friend and caught a glimpse of something and then watched a bright light make a silent trip across the sky from SW to NE with light rumble after the fact. The news said they were sending folks to the swampy land on the edge of the lake (Ontario) to hunt for the remnants. Didn’t have all the cameras available back then so it was a neat experience to be looking in the right place at the right time...
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