9 News Perth:''A mystery flash of light across our skies has sent our WA into a frenzy. Thousand of people from Margaret River to the wheatbelt spotted the fireball as it streaked across the sky this morning. Expert say it was a large and rare meteor and they want help to find it.''
Dozens of people in Perth and WA's South West have reported a bright light in the sky, believed to have been small meteor.
Callers flooded 720 ABC Perth's Morning program on Monday, claiming to have seen the celestial event in locations ranging from Gidgegannup, on Perth's eastern outskirts, to Margaret River in the South West.
Talkback callers described seeing an intense white light flashing across the sky about 9:15 am.
''I was just going over the Mount Henry Bridge[in Perth]...and there was this silver, sort of shooting thing that came down and just vaporised in a burst over the river'', caller Gillian said.
Hilary was driving on the South West Highway near Binningup when she saw the object.
''A silver thing flashed at an angle - not like it was gravity, but going as though it was propelled into the ground'', she said.
ABC gardening expert Sabrina Hahn said she thought someone had been letting off fireworks.
''It was a really, really intense bright light. It was incredible because it was such an intense light'', she said.
Meteors rarely visible in daylight, academic says
Curtin University planetary scientist Phil Bland said it was likely to have been a meteor.
''What these things typically are is a chunk of rock entering our atmosphere'', he said.
''A meteorite is an extra-terrestrial material on the earth's surface, so if it lands on earth it's a meteorite.''
Professor Bland said the university would love to get hold of the meteorite.
''Meteorites contain an amazing record of the early solar system formation, so we get a lot of information about how planets came from'', he said.
Source: abc.net
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