Word on the street is that something fierce—maybe a meteorite or even a satellite—crashed down near the Eastern Cape.
The ground shook, the sky sparked, and some locals were left with bated breath, wondering if it was an earthquake. However, according to Weather Guru, a Facebook page run by Garth Sampson, a former employee of the South African Weather Service, it was definitely not an earthquake, even though it is unclear exactly what happened.
Residents in the Mossel Bay area said they had heard two loud bang noises, as did another resident in Great Brak. Meanwhile, a trio were walking on the beach in St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape when they saw what appeared to be a meteorite breaking up in the sky and swishing towards the ground. It is said to have landed somewhere near Patensie.
The Citizen notes that Zoë van der Merwe and her friends MC Ferreira and Stephen Sharp managed to capture what looked like a space rock in the Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday morning.
“They filmed what seems to be a meteorite breaking up and a loud explosion to go with it. The video was shot near St Francis and there are reports that objects felling to the ocean near Jeffreys Bay,” according to Snow Report SA and Van der Merwe’s mother Annie de Beer
Numerous reports of it had been heard as far afield as the Ortanique area outside George. Jazz Kusche, a St Francis Bay resident, told Group Editors that it sounded like a jet passing over, and caused the sliding doors in their house to rattle. There are many reports of what sounded like “an explosion” in the areas of Humansdorp, Patensie and Addo, and as far afield as Sedgefield and George.
