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FIREBALL SIGHTING (8.39pm WA Time
02-01-00)
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 00.
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 deg 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 00 - 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, 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