It came from outer space
The telephones of neighbours and friends within a 250-kilometre radius south of Alice Springs began ringing to discuss the meteorite that had flashed through the dusk on Friday night.
"I was outside with the children when I noticed them looking up at the sky," said Nicole Buddle from Hugh River Farms.
"I looked up and saw this white magnesium flare with smoke swirling. It was hard to see against the setting sun."
She called neighbour Ross Morton 40 kilometres away. "He said he had been feeding the cats on the veranda and felt the roof shake."
Piecing together the sightings across the Northern Territory enabled Sergeant Johnsson to conclude the smoking flare across the sky was some type of meteorite. "It looks like it came in a westerly direction at great speed and came down sometime around 7pm," he said.
The meteor was spotted near where the Henbury Meteor struck 4700 years ago. That giant meteor was travelling at more than 40,000kmh when it disintegrated and hit Earth, creating 12 giant craters 145 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.
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