A large bang, thought to have been caused by a meteor, startled residents in Melbourne's north-east last night.
Video captured from CCTV cameras from a house in the suburb showed an orange light flash before a booming noise is heard seconds later.Video captured from CCTV cameras from a house in the suburb shows an orange light flash before a booming noise is heard seconds later. "I didn't know what to expect," Scanlon said.
"The wife was thinking, working on the car and heard something bang, she thought something happened in the garage," he said.READ MORE:Astrophysicist Dr Clare Kenyon said at this stage the source is possibly a meteor."What actually happens is it's starting to travel faster than the particles of air can push the sound away."Experts believe the meteor was about the size of a soccer ball and there is a chance fragments made landfall in the northern suburbs.
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