The mysterious bright lights and sound of an explosion over the skies of the Eastern Cape at the weekend might have been a meteorite that disintegrated when it entered the atmosphere, according to an expert.
"It sounds like a bolide, which is a meteor that is large enough to break up into smaller meteors when it enters the atmosphere," said Jerome Jooste, chairperson of the Johannesburg Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa.
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