I saw a meteor!

[eye_of_a_cat]

None of your half-hearted shooting stars that look like a normal star going sideways, no: absolutely huge glowing green thing tearing across the sky, bits breaking off it, in total silence. I honestly thought it was a plane coming down - it was so bright and flying so low. Someone else's videos of it here and here.

If alien spacecraft ever do zap down to land on Earth like this I am pleased to learn what I would actually do, which from experience is: yell "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" and bolt outside to get a better view.

Comments

[vilakins]

You're so lucky you saw it! There was a huge one last month that was seen from our town but we missed it, obliviously inside. No videos, but the article here shows the size of it over Dunedin to the south.

[eye_of_a_cat]

That is huge! How cool. Alas ours would have landed in the sea so no point looking for anything left of it.

[adafrog]

Cool!