‘Meteor’ crashes to earth with loud bang & leaves houses shaking after lighting up night sky in Australia
A BLAZING fireball lit up the skies over Australia before a deafening bang rattled homes and sent social media into meltdown.
The suspected meteor was spotted just before 8pm on Sunday by Victoria residents who thought they saw a blinding flash followed by a ground-shaking boom.
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One shocked witness wrote on social media: “Just saw something fall from the sky near Daylesford and a huge bang. Never felt anything like it.”
Another claimed: “Hubby saw a red light falling, followed by a loud bang! The house was shaking.”
One motorist said they “nearly shat” themselves when a red lightning bolt appeared overhead, while another joked they mistook the noise for “a wombat slamming into the gate while a heavy possum ran across the roof.”
Dashcam footage shared on X shows the meteor’s brilliant trail streaking across the Melbourne night sky around 8.30pm, flaring before breaking apart in a burst of white light.
Another clip, time-stamped 7.49pm, captures the fireball blazing over Victoria, so bright it briefly lit up the landscape, before fading – moments before residents say they heard the bang.
Associate professor Michael Brown from Monash University’s school of physics and astronomy said the noise could have been a sonic boom – a rare sign the meteor came unusually close to Earth’s surface.
He explained: “That is unusual and actually quite exciting, as if those reports are accurate, probably what they were hearing was 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.
“And that possibly means there’s chunks of the meteorite actually made it down to the ground and optimistically, might be found.”
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