Meteor over Mediterranean Sea.

A bright meteoroid entry was tracked on February 16 off the Spanish coast. The meteor illuminated the sky as it burned up in a large fireball above the Balearic Sea/Alboran Sea. This was over an area between the coast and the Illes Balears that includes Ibiza.

Cetacean Strandings.

The UK Natural History Museum has released all data concerning cetacean strandings from 1913-1989.

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Timeline Update - Included Events

Time Line Update: I've placed in the Dec 2021 and March 30 2022 Airburst events to bookmark how volatile the atmosphere was in this period of ocean. The January Airburst was the 43rd largest recorded by NASA.

2021, December 10. AIRBURST. Time 01:19, (-47.5 S, 172.6 ) Blast force 160,000 kg of TNT. 230Km S.W of Dunedin South Island.

2022, January 11. Southern Ocean. AIRBURST. Time 03:33. Lat 58.4, Long 160.2, e=126.4, -e=2.9. Equivalent to 2,900,000 tons of TNT.

2022, February 13-14. Chatham Islands. 6 Black Dolphins euthanised. They were part of a larger pod of 70 individuals. Thankfully, the majority returned to sea. Note: A good example of injured animals dying quickly breaking the link to the survivors from fighting to restrand because the others are calling them in.

2022, March, 17. New Zealand, South Island, Golden Bay. 31 Black Dolphins. Beached across three kilometres of Farewell Spit on the South Island. Note: This stranding shows a good example of an Airburst concussion-type event. When whales stretch out along a stranding location it is nearly always from an airburst or impact.

2022, March 30. East of New Zealand. AIRBURST. Time 18:19, (-45.9 S, -171.4 W), blast force 73,000 kg of TNT.

Image of a Black Dolphin from a previous stranding.

Whale strandings in New Zealand for January linked to meteoroid events with an Australian connection.

Looking at the complete picture, New Zealand is in a very active meteoroid stream. This apparently has been the case for some time. 

2024, January 8. New Zealand, Between South and North Island. High Altitude Meteor. Time 15:17. Traveling east to west at 100 km travelling prograde at 57km/s.

2024, January 8. South Australia, Eight Mile Creek, southeast of Mount Gambier, east of Port McDonald. Dozens of dead sea animals, including sharks and octopuses, wobbegong sharks, but also snapper, wrasse, octopuses, Port Jackson sharks, stingrays, salmon and ling. Almost a straight line from New Zealand to Australia from the above meteoroid.

2024, January 9 and 10. New Zealand. Two Gray’s beaked whales were stranded on two separate beaches near South Taranaki on Tuesday and Wednesday. The whales were already dead when located on Waipipi coastline and were between 3.5 and 4m in length. This came between 24 and 48 hours after the above meteor event.

2024, January 21. New Zealand, North Island-East Coast, Hawke's Bay, reef near Māhia, Tairāwhiti beach, Taylor’s Beach. 40 false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins were euthanised. The pod first stranded early in the afternoon but refloated with the high tide at about 3pm. They were then stranded at a remote and inaccessible reef point further south from Taylor’s Beach.

2024, January 21. New Zealand, North Island. Time 9:12pm. The fireball was seen in Auckland, Waikato, Gisborne, Waipawa and Hawke’s Bay, the same day 40 false killer whales were stranded in the area. A loud sonic boom was heard as it flew overhead, travelling from N.W to S.E. It was described as a low travelling large ball of fire.

2024. January 28. New Zealand, Christchurch, Moncks Bay. 7m long Fin whale stranded. Stranded at 9pm and died at 3am following morning.

2024. January 29 - 30. New Zealand, Baylys Beach, East Coast, North Island. 3 Black Dolphins. The first one washed up from a pod offshore of approx. 10 - 12 individuals. The second was 2km further up the beach and was 3m long. The third washed up the next day. Baylys Beach is a small section of Ripiro Beach, which is the longest west coast beach in New Zealand. It’s located in the Kaipara district near Dargaville. PCTE

 At first, I thought I was dealing with two events that were connected. Now, its become many connections. Two more impacts were witnessed and a mass fish kill, all documented. The meteoroid stream had to be an asteroid breaking apart long before atmospheric entry, going at the right speed, angle and density to survive the flight. It's almost a straight line between impacts.

1962, December 13, New South Wales, METEOR IMPACT, a fireball fell into Lake George 30km NE of Canberra. On December 22 fisheries reported a mass fish kill over 23km stretch of lake. The fireball struck the water off Gearys Gap causing fish to die from the center to the sides.

1963, May, Large number of bolides were seen on land.

1963, June, Tasmania, Friendly Beaches on the east coast, Mass stranding of False Killer Whales. (Number Unkown)

1963, July 23, South Australia, Great Australian Bight. METEOR IMPACT, Massive roar and explosion at sea in Great Australian Bight west of South Australian coast. Two weeks later False Killer whale stranding August 7 below.

1963, July 31, South Australia, METEOR IMPACT, second in less than 9 days. Impacted sea off Mt Drummond in the Great Australian Bight. It was reported going over Kapinnie 10km from the coast. The explosion was heard at Port Lincoln 100 km away.

1963, August 7, South Australia, Near Eucla, Western Australia-South Australia Border. 59, Orca/False Killer beach themselves after the July 23 event above. The largest was 18 and a half feet long. and 1 and half tons. Good state of preservation and no signs of physical injury.

1963, October 8, New South Wales, Wreck Bay, 56km south of Nowra, 39 Black Dolphins.