(meteorobs) Possible meteor event over South Africa

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> Anyone got any ideas on what this could have been? Space debris or meteor?
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> Richard Wade
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> Pretoria South Africa
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> UFO crashes in South Africa
> 02/01/2007 23:13  - (SA)
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> Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a
> strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" -
> hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
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> That's according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale
> (Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter's farm just east of
> the town on Saturday morning.
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> "I was lying on my bed reading SMS-messages when I heard a noise like an
> Airbus aircraft firing up its motors."
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> "It was raining but there was no thunder or lightning. The noise grew
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> and eventually it sounded like a million turbines screaming in unison,"
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> She walked to the bedroom window and saw the clouds taking on a bright
> orange-red colour.
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> "Suddenly, a bright object plunged from the clouds to the earth, at a
> terrible speed, and hit the ground with an almighty bang."
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> "It looked like Haley's comet, round in the front and with an orange-red
> tail following behind."
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> When the UFO hit the ground the low-lying clouds went orange.
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> "It was so exceptional that I started crying. I wished my children and
> grandchildren could have seen it. I had not been drinking and I was in
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> control of my faculties," she said.
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> She calculated that the object must have hit the ground near Beauty,
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> the Tambotie and Palele rivers.
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> Cobus Nel, her son-in-law, who was also in the house, woke up from the
> commotion.
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> "I woke up to a terrible rumbling, followed by a sound like an explosion.
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> woke my wife up, so that she could also listen, because the rumbling
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> more than a minute, becoming louder, then we heard the bang," Nel said.
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> Lephlale's fire service, police and disaster control centres seemed to
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> slept through the commotion.
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> "I want someone to go and have a look. The farms here are big, and it
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> have fallen somewhere, where the farmer doesn't even know about it," Ras
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> http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2050666,00.html
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