Subj: WA FIREBALL REPORT + NZ
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Date: 1/6/00 5:24:25 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: orbitx@iinet.net.au (Harry Mason)
To: Phikent@aol.com
Hi Kent,
I thought that you might like this data for your web site.
Best Regards,
Harry
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FIREBALL SIGHTING (8.39pm WA Time 02-01-2000)
Preliminary reports have come in concerning a large Fireball event experienced
here in South West Western Australia at 8.39pm on Sunday the 2nd of January
2000.
I am still collecting reports from as far afield as Esperance, Albany, Denmark,
Walpole, Greenbushes, Collie, Manjimup, Margaret River, Bunbury, Busselton,
and Perth.
The following summary of the event and my comments is based upon my several
received reports plus WA Press and TV Media articles. A more detailed report
of individual eye-witness accounts will be prepared in the future when it
is judged that all relevant data is in and some reliable discussion of facts
can be developed.
Telecom Enquiries number - 013 - was overwhelmed with reports from the numerous
persons across the South West around 9.00pm on Sunday. Telecom 013 shift
operators were on line from Eastern Australia in Hobart, Tasmania, that night,
and gasped out loud "what the hell is going on over there in WA - we have
been going berserk here with calls of explosions and bright lights, "rocks"
were reported falling from the sky in Walpole, many rural police stations
and civilians have been ringing us about this event - asking for numbers
of meteor and ufo reporting agencies"
"The entire South Western night sky was lit up with a huge magnesium white
flash that lasted for about 2-3 seconds and lit up everything on the ground
in some detail - I could briefly see my neighbours houses near me in Perth
- lit up in silhouette - as if it was day". A very large "plus full moon
sized" ball of bright magnesium white light came from low down on the South
East horizon and moved at low to medium altitude and slow to medium jet aircraft
speed to the North West before flashing out somewhere near the Kwinana Industrial
area (just south of our Garden Island Naval Base South of Fremantle) - reported
an observer located in Caversham, near Midland, Perth. He saw the entire
event from his verandah over a few seconds. He stated that the bright white
object was perfectly spherical in form and was partly surrounded by a billowing
orange-greeny flame - when seen from head on. He reported that it had a very
small conical orange-green fiery tail whilst the centre of the bright white
light appeared to contain a perfectly spherical grey object. The fireball
got bigger and bigger as it raced towards him and he thought that "it was
all over" - "that we were about to be obliterated by a huge comet impact".
The light flashed out and he braced for impact explosion and a shock wave
- but none came ..................... Relative to this observer the object
trajectory was almost horizontal at his arms length and began low on the
South Eastern horizon.
A doctor on holiday with his family at a sea side shack in Denmark remarked
that the sky lit up as if daylight such that we could see all of our buildings
and immediate area in a brilliant white light. Some two minutes later there
was a massive explosion and our building shook and rattled. It was as if
an artillery shell had exploded by our front door. This was the biggest explosion
I have ever experienced. I presume it was the sonic boom of a meteorite ???
Many residents in the Denmark-Walpole area reported a bright flash of light
and a very loud explosion which shook their homes.
A Greenbushes resident driving home from Donnybrook ie. looking to the east
- reported a flash of very bright light in the eastern sky - similar to
lightning, a falling light changed colour from pink to blue, green, and orange.
It had NO tail like a comet and was NOT a flare.
A keen Esperance meteor shower observer reported a streak of light falling
SLOWLY in the western sky (Esperance is some 600km east of the previous observer
near Donnybrook). This surveyor and State Emergency Service Volunteer reported
the object was possibly an unusual flare or firework after it formed a strange
TRIANGULAR shape in it's traverse of the sky. He stated that meteors do not
usually form a shape of any kind ..........
A retired Manjimup resident reported a big bright yellow light falling RAPIDLY
towards the ground. She believed that the light which had been visible for
a couple of seconds had been much bigger than fireworks but was not a flare
or a comet.
The South West of Western Australia has been experiencing an ongoing heat
wave for about 12 days with day time temperatures of some 38deg Centigrade
and night time temperatures of some 20deg Centigrade. Thunder storms have
occasionally developed in the late afternoon and evenings. Recent (post Sunday
Fireball Event !!!) TV news reports ascribed these sultry conditions as excellent
for the forming of electrical fireballs and charged plasma's with associated
dry lightning in our WA atmosphere..................
In the Perth press Perth Astronomers ascribe to the Sunday Event being either
part of the currently "ONGOING" annual meteor shower from the "Bootes star
constellation" in the North Eastern sky, OR from space junk.....................
Of Course !!!
Those of us involved in Fireball research are used to the usual furphy's
from astronomers but it is quite a new angle to hear immediate TV news reports
of "electrical fireball and plasma" atmospheric formation conditions being
ripe in our heat wave. I have never ever heard of this before. Gives a whole
new twist to "Spin Doctored".
About 35 minutes after the event Perth residents reported RAAF military single
engined jets without lights raced over their houses at low level from the
north Perth RAAF Pearce airbase en route to the Fireball's last seen position
near the Kwinana Industrial area. This coastal location houses WA's
petro-chemical refinery and many other large industrial operations such as
Alcoa's Aluminium Plant. The RAAF deny that they scrambled fighters but the
eyewitnesses are considered reliable.
So there you have it - hot sultry weather conditions created Tesla style
electrical Fireballs and these exploded in dry lightning strikes - like artillery
shells - and lit up the entire South Western part of WA over an area some
600km (E-W) x 500km (N-S)........................
Or Emperor Ming (aka Sirian Greys or Andromedan Reptillians) and his invasion
forces, or those "Energetic" Ruskies are at it again !!! I must check to
see if a US Aircraft Carrier battle group is in WA waters again. I know there
was one off of Sydney for Xmas and the New Millennium celebrations - obviously
defending Sydney against the dastardly Ming and his cohorts - did it sail
over to be off our South coast near Denmark on Sunday ??? US nuclear aircraft
carrier battle groups exercising in WA waters have co-incided with all our
previous big explosive fireball events eg 1993, and 1995 .......................
Just possibly someone shot down an incoming ICBM warhead or space plane with
an exotic EM weapon - as part of a military exercise ???
Could it have been a KGB celebration of the New Year that demonstrates the
extreme vulnerability of our very undefended WA coastal industry. Watch out
for the big celebrations on the 1st of May 2000 - they have been very exotic
every five years since 1980.
Or was it nearly WA's very own Tunguska ??? We seem to be getting more than
our fair share of these exploding plasma incidents over the last decade
..............
What ever it was it must be getting quite serious if they have to prime pump
our minds via spin doctored WA TV news media with "scientific" explanations
of sultry weather creating electrical plasma fireballs as cover for yet another
WA Mega Fireball event. Was the weather responsible for both the 28-05-1993
Banjawarn series of fireballs (one highly explosive plus a 3.9 richter
earthquake) or the 01-05-1995 Perth 2.00am multi-megatonne air burst fireball
??? Or how about the hundreds of other fireballs observed flitting about
our state over the past few years ................
If you read about the previous history of WA fireball and other exotic events
in my Bright Skies articles (available at www.peg.apc.org/~nexus or
www.millenngroup.com or by request to orbitx@iinet.net.au) you will see these
incidents in a wider historical and planetary context.
The exact cause of many recent planetary fireball events is not known. They
are often presumed to be meteors ie. space rock and indeed some may well
be - yet much evidence points to other causes of an electromagnetic plasma
style - possibly from a natural or a sentient source.
Given their obviously powerful and threatening nature we must elucidate their
exact nature or the next one could spoil our entire day ...................
Merry Millenium Folks,
Harry Mason
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New Zealand News from The Press - Wednesday, December 29, 1999
Night lights mystery
AUCKLAND -- UFO fever is threatening to break out after a rash of calls to
police about fast-moving, coloured lights in the sky north of the city.
Police received six calls over two hours from several different areas north
of Auckland on Saturday night but have been unable to explain the lights.
One caller said the lights moved 400 metres in less than two seconds while
two others said they moved up and down in the sky very fast.
Inspector Barry Smalley of the police northern communications centre said
there was something in the sky but no-one knew quite what.
"There's something there. Because of the path it was travelling it may have
been something coming through the atmosphere.
"It's another mystery. We'll have to get Mulder and Scully (from the
television show, The X-Files) on to it."
The first call to police was at 9.38pm, 20 minutes after the first sighting
from Raglan of what appeared to be a green flare when looking in the
direction of Auckland. The flare died before it hit the sea.
Further reports had the lights moving north.
The last sighting was about 11.36pm from Tinopai, in Northland, where
resident reported "huge lights" over the hills due north. The lights were
reported to have moved about 400 metres in two seconds.
Two more strange lights were reported "going straight up and down sky,
intensely light and intensely red" looking across the Kaipara Harbour. The
lights were reported to be dancing about in the sky.--NZPA