A meteor was spotted across the skies of Victoria, Australia, between Ballarat and Bendigo late on Sunday, August 10. CCTV cameras and citizens captured a glimpse of the rare, stunning lightning, which was described as a 'sonic boom'. Social media users claimed that they felt the ground shake at the time of the sighting.
A meteor was seen at around 8 pm on Sunday ahead of the Perseids meteor shower on Monday. However, according to astronomers, the last night sighting was not related to Perseids.
Meteor Spotted in Australian Skies
An astronomer called a 'sporadic meteor', referring to it non-specifically. "The reason it's not a Perseid is because the 'radiant' – the point the meteors appear to radiate out from – never rises above the horizon for us at the latitude of Victoria.," Perry Vlahos told The Age, reported 9news.com.
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Another expert confirming the sighting said that the usuals were seen between Bendigo and Ballarat and are true. He said that people hear a sonic boom from the meteor. "To be able to hear the sonic boom loudly from the ground suggests that quite a big chunk of the meteor was pretty close to the ground," 9news.com quoted an expert.