Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

I do believe you, same happen to me in the Netherlands

Had you been drinking?

Had a similar experience around 8 years ago over southern Germany.

I saw one a couple of months ago from Pakuranga! No sound, so it must've been far away, but at first I thought it must be a firework (bright white though, ending in a flash not an explosion). Could've been space junk not a meteor.

I had an identical experience while on the coast of the Mid-Atlantic US several years ago: a giant fireball flew over me for around half a minute, give or take. I was indoors looking at the sea at night through a large window. There was no sound I could hear from inside the room. I was so mesmerized by the meteor that it didn't occur to me to take my eyes off from it, you know, to grab my phone and record the whole thing. It all looked like a special effect in a big-budget movie, but in real life.

Now, I'm almost certain that mythological figures like Helios, who rides a "chariot of fire" in the sky, must be interpretations of similar meteor sightings in antiquity: https://www.google.com/search?q=helios+chariot+of+fire&tbm=i... -- a "chariot of fire" is pretty apt description, IMHO.

Did you hear anything?

I saw something similar decades ago. I believe you.

I was in Christchurch New Zealand in September 2006 when we experienced a meteorite. http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/09122006.htm . Extremely loud, sounded like a truck had fallen over!

Felt like I had to dig this up, I saw it too from the beach at Matauri bay. Google timeline was handy in pinning down the exact date!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/reports-flood-in-of-possible-m...

I was lucky enough to witness it too.

I was driving down my street and I saw the world in front of me light up from a fireball in the sky accompanied by a loud roar. I had no reference as to what this was – a missile? A plane going down? Surely it was travelling too fast for those though.

As it passed over to the East I waited with tensed shoulders for what was to come next, I assumed a large impact or explosion, but thankfully exhaled after a few seconds and simply silence was what came next.

Remarkable experience!

There's recent footage on Reddit ("rocks falling from the cliff" + /nextfu**glevel/ ) showing the enormous energies of a rock slide in Himachal Pradesh which was just brutal (people died, although footage does not depict that directly).

It was impossible not to think of it when seeing the above; you really wouldn't want to be anywhere near the impact site of a larger meteor if you could help it.

Did it get picked up on any seismometers?

That's because no one can afford to drive in Oslo any more. Every road is a toll road and there are no parking spaces any more.

the first twitter video link in a comment above looks like dashcam footage?

Those car cams have done some absolutely historic data collection. Did you ever see the dashcam video of a driver panicking and hurriedly slamming their car into reverse when shells started falling in an eastern Ukrainian city? Still blows my mind to think of what we can all see now as if we're right there.

> All those "5 meteorites to pass by Earth this month" title makers never hit earth.

100% of all meteorites hit the Earth, by definition.

I think you mean “meteor”.

The ones that we can see before they hit are very big. The ones that do hit are too small to be seen beforehand. There are a lot more of the smaller ones than the bigger ones.

Those that make a title would make quite some damage if they did hit earth. Those that don't make a title may still be spectacular, but they're too small to be detected.

Here is the Norwegian Meteor Network's report on the event: http://norskmeteornettverk.no/meteor/20210724/230849/