A very bright and very big light was reported hurtling through the skies of SE Queensland and Northern NSW all the way to the Hunter region. That light was none other than the decomissionioned Soviet Satellite Molniya 3-53.
I missed the action. I really really missed this! I eagerly ventured outside last night when I heard there was action up in the sky over SE Queensland around Nanango and Kingaroy area in Queensland. I went outside up into the back yard for a look, I didn't stay long enough though it seems. I should have stayed longer. I didn't see anything so I abandoned it all and went to bed almost straight away after coming back inside frozen to the core. Isn't it always the way, what do you know, it was all going on and I didn't know a thing. I was oblivious to what sight everyone was seeing. So Yes, I am disappointed slightly.
Today was a flurry of reporting. There were reports from all up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia from North of Brisbane all the way down to Port Macquarie and down as far as the Hunter Valley. In our area here there were Hundred's of reports from the Coffs Harbour surrounding districts.
I think the funniest report was from my great friend Gail. Yes Gail saw it! She witnessed this entire event while she was having a cigarette on her verandah. The sky started to go strange and suddenly it was lit up everywhere with a peculiar light and then she saw it sailing in over the top of her from the west.
She was convinced it was going to hit Fuller's Fruit Barn on Waterfall Way. She said she was waiting for the siren's but they never happened. I laughed with her picturing all of this. I think Gail was very lucky.
Reports today also say it was Space Junk and not an actual meteorite after all. Either way it gave lots of people a site they will never forget.
From this website then we read that it was Space Junk from an old satellite http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CO-20130614-39605-AUS
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