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Sorry, kinda long but hopefully entertaining enough:
I too have 'heard' a bolide.
I think it was either 1993 or 1994 or maybe even 1995.... somewhere around there anyway!
I was outside, mindlessly stargazing and getting a breath of cool air on a summer night, as I do almost every night before I hit the sack. Seconds later I climbed into bed and was just about to close my eyes when I heard a popping/crackling sound, wondered what it was so sat up and looked out my open window.
The whole scene was bathed in a bright greenish glow that kinda pulsated and flashed irregularly.
About 5 to 10 seconds later it was all over, I was confused for a while but convinced myself it must have been an electrical fault,(Above ground power poles here) even tho the amount of light didn't sit comfortably in my mind.
I looked at my watch and it was only a few seconds after 2am. Thought that was a pretty cool coincidence.(yeah sure I remember that but not the year!)
But the light just didn't seem right, then I realised the bright glow went right out to the horizon... I lived on the beach then and Penguin island - which is maybe 3k away - was brightly lit, more so than with a full moon. What could produce so much light?
I was just laying there thinking about it when there was an extremely deep, almost subsonic, powerfull(but not loud) boom that rattled my bedroom window. By now I was getting kinda spooked but with some more thought I decided it must have been a meteor.
I started kicking myself for not staying out and stargazing for just a min longer!
Sure enough it was the cover story on the morning paper and the evening news which was full of eye-witness stories from truckies and security guards etc. There were even people who told they were woken by stuff falling on their roofs, while flashing chunks of rock to the camera.
Still pissed that I missed seeing it.
It happened to me again at a star party, was manually guiding a film camera, when suddenly I was casting one hell of a shadow!
Lasted a good 4 seconds, accompanied by many screams and hoots and cheers... ofcourse all this happened behind me! Grrrrrr.
Don't remember hearing anything of that one.
Again, maybe 2003/04, on a stinkin' hot night with all my windows open, was just lying there staring out the window when suddenly everything was lit extremely brightly for a second. I waited for the thunder... and thought, 'was that light a kinda greenish tinge?'
The thunder never came, so I wandered outside and the sky was clear from horizon to horizon! D'OH!
I did see one tho, during the day, maybe around sunset at the latest.
Was probably about 1990-ish in a car with my brother and his mate. We all saw a huge fireball in the north sky, maybe 30deg up from the horizon, streaking from west to east and crossing easily half the sky before splitting into two. The trail it left looked like a forked snake tongue, pretty speccy.
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