Reports Report 1071a (Event 1071-2014)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kim C |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I have never seen anything like this before in my life, I can't even find any information to help me know what May have caused it. I'm not sure if it was a fireball exactly. I was facing the northwest and the brightest part of the light (where it seemed to radiate from) was above/behind where I was focused at looking, I wish I had seen the main part. What ever it was it generated enough light to light up everything, almost blinding so. Of there had been clouds in the sky I would have assumed it to be the brightest, most bizarre lightning I have ever seen. It was amazing though. I feel so lucky to have witnessed something like this. Also note that the date was actually the early morning (about 2:30am) of the 4th of May but it won't let me choose that date so had to pick the third. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | George Town, TAS (AU) |
| Latitude | 41° 7' 10.78'' S (-41.11966°) |
| Longitude | 146° 50' 35.38'' E (146.84316°) |
| Elevation | - |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2014-05-03 02:30 EST |
| UT Date & Time | 2014-05-02 16:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From left to right |
| Descent Angle | 90° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 315° |
| First azimuth | 315° |
| First elevation | 90° |
| Last azimuth | - |
| Last elevation | 90° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -24 |
| Color | There was a blue tinge surrounding main cause |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | Not sure if it was to do with the light but about 5 minutes later we heard a heavy rumble that sounded like it could have been thunder or someone bashing on a tin shed, I didn't hear it cleary as I had gone inside where there was also music playing to tell my partner what I had just seen. The sound lasted about 2 seconds. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | The sky was completely cloudless and clear, had been all night, then the whole sky just randomly lit up like really bright lightning. It was a blue colour at first but flashed yellow then bright white filling the whole sky. When the light was blue it appeared in a very large circlular shape surrounding the source of the 'lightning' while the rest of the sky around the horizons lit up in a white colour. The flashes didn't fade like lightning or act like real lightning other then illuminating all my surroundings like it was day , as it finished all the light seemed to get sucked back up and take off into the north of the sky. I was a bit freaked out at first cause it looked a lot like how they betray flying saucers too look like when they take off in movies but there was a lot of meteor action at the time it happened. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |