Hey, Grahame, great video.
I think I saw this with my naked eye in Brisbane on the same night. I couldn't sleep and ducked outside for a breath of fresh air. It came across from the east and traversed the length of my roof line at such a small downward trajectory that it appeared to be travelling almost parallel to it.
It was much larger than a shooting star, moved more slowly and was much lower in the sky not to mention the fact it was travelling near horizontally. I watched it for maybe 5 seconds before it disappeared from view behind other houses to my west.
Do you think it could have been the same thing? Surely a fireball wouldn't last long enough to travel across the entire continent, would it? I have no idea what the time was when I saw it but it was late, maybe between 11pm and 1am Brisbane time, but it was definitely the same night. I certainly have never seen anything like it before.
|