Fireball over Bass Strait/Tasman Sea region

Preliminary report: 2026, May 10. Tasman Sea, East of Flinders Island. Fireball. Time: ~21:28hrs UTC+10. No sonic boom heard in Tasmania or Victoria. Duration: 5 seconds. No infrasound signal detected. Seen from Launceston, Granton, Arthurs Lake, Tasmanian east coast and Packenham in Victoria. Travelling NNE to SSW. A smaller fireball was seen in the same region, 2 hours earlier at 19:27, further to the east.

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2026, May 10. Japan, Kyoto, Garashiyama Plateau. Fireball. Time: 03:28LT. Duration: 15+ seconds.

2026, May 9. Poland, Baltic coast, northern Pomeranian region, Mewia Łacha nature reserve near the mouth of the Vistula River, close to the village of Mikoszewo. Dead baleen whale in advanced state of decomposition, roughly 5m long.

The 1946 Mass Stranding in Gippsland, Australia

1946, March 21-24. Victoria, Gippsland. Localized "booms" and gales. 'Thunder on a Clear Day" Possible meteor airburst or atmospheric shock. There were multiple reports across regional Victoria of "unexplained booms." These are often recorded in local gazettes as: "Subterranean Rumbles" Residents in the Gippsland Hills and near Port Albert reported sounds like "heavy artillery wagons" or "distant thunder" despite clear blue skies. There were reports of "distant thudding" or "heavy vibrations" felt in the coastal regions. Unlike an earthquake, which vibrates the ground first, these were described as aerial concussions—the classic signature of a high-altitude meteor airburst. "Acoustic Overload", linked to the event below.

1946, March 25. Victoria, Gippsland, off Port Albert. Manns Beach. A mass stranding of between 150 to 200 pilot whales. Split mass stranding (Fragmented or stochastic mass stranding, where the pod doesn't hit the beach all at once). The "Pre-Stranding". On March 25, three individuals came ashore near Manns Beach approximately three days before the main pod. This is often seen in pilot whale strandings where a "scout" or sick leader drifts shoreward first, followed later by the social group. On March 28. 150+ Black Dolphins + Dolphin, at Dog Leg, Ninety Mile Beach near Green Hummock Point. The whales were about six feet long. The Geographic Spread: The stranding was "split" because of the complex coastline of the Nooramunga Marine & Coastal Park. Manns Beach: The primary site near Port Albert. Dog Leg & Green Hummock Point: These are specific sections of Ninety Mile Beach. The "Dog Leg" refers to a sharp bend in the coastal channel/sandbank structure near the entrance to the Port Albert inlet.

Also leading up to this event was a significant meteor storm in NSW.

January 6 (Albury, 3:30 a.m.): This event was reported as a "brilliant flash" that exploded over the region. With only 7 hours between the previous report and this one, it suggests the Earth was passing through a dense stream of debris.

January 26 (Tumut-Adelong): Described as a "violent" airburst. Created a sonic boom that was heard, in some locations, ten minutes after the event. This region is geographically "upstream" from Gippsland in terms of common meteor trajectories (which often move northwest to southeast across the continent).

Florida, Gulf of Mexico and Australia see large fireballs

Update of Florida fireballs and a large event in Gulf of Mexico. 2025, November 9. Gulf of Mexico. Large Fireball. Witness from a ship or oil platform: Smoke trail glowing green. Witness: Mexico, Yucatan, Holbox, Quintana Roo. Time: Approx 9.15pm. A group of tourists witnessed the event. Whizzing noise heard.

2025, November 13. Victoria. Tallarook Ranges. Time: about 21:28:38 (AESDT). Large Fireball. Overland. Duration: 10sec. Travelling in a NE direction. Blue green and white in colour, Blue/Greenish tail, Green head and orange white tail. Broke up on decent (fragmented).  

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Large Meteor in Australia

After analysing data, a Marine Animal Disturbance Alert should be noted for the Bass Strait region and accompanying coastlines. The meteor has produced delayed and concurrent sound (VLF Radio waves). In one report, it has shut down surveillance cameras. The range of these waves could be approximately 70km. There has been a significant uptick in meteor sightings in the lower eastern region of Australia in the last few days; how far this extends into the Tasman Sea is not known. There have been a couple of larger events seen on the west coast of New Zealand. Therefore, the risk to cetaceans moving on migration routes during this period is high. 

I've had a few of these coastal sonic booms lately; one in Indonesia, the other in Malaysia and now this event. They are harder to analyse as a threat to cetaceans, however, they usually confirm wider base material coming in over a region, so it's better to be safe than sorry; therefore, be watchful for unusual cetacean behaviour.  

News report by WINNEWS: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18y7c596dQ/

2025, November 2. Victoria. Large meteor, Thunderball. Time: 16:43.

Sonic boom heard over an area of 5,026.55 square kilometers (km²).   

Seen over 400 km away to the NE in NSW.

Sonic boom heard at: Fernbank 16:45, Paynesville, Wiseleigh, Loch Sport, Bairnsdale (Tremor), Lakes Entrance, Orbost (to the west),

A significant tremor was picked up on seismic recording equipment in Buchan, 70km to the NE of the event.  

Seen: Myrrhee, 180km NE, Warragul, Wattle Point and Wiweira, Melton (Melbourne), Jindabyne NSW after 4pm, Nowra (NSW), Sale, Armstrong Creek (Geelong),  

Reports meteorites have fallen. A witness has stated her cameras froze at 16:43, the time of the event. 

Witness Reports: “It resembled a lightning strike hitting our home, the building shook and windows rattled.” “The blast had brought him and his neighbours all out onto the street. The boom had lasted for several seconds. It rattled the roof tiles, it shook the house quite a bit, It was massive, I think people came out expecting to see a plane crash. The impact had definitely come from above and sent a wave of pressure downwards.

Reports of a fire were unrelated to the meteor event. Officials are looking for meteorites in the area. 

Will update this page as Information comes in. For more information or if you want to report anything go to Australian Meteor Reports | Facebook. 

Infrasound at Kingston Tasmania, 570 km to the south. Could be consistent with sonic booms at separate heights in East Gippsland VIC (~460 km path) if these were heard around 1700 AEDT (faster arrival from lower altitude). Times in UT, location coordinates shown.

The sonic boom has caused a significant tremor. 

Meteor airburst shows how devastating they can be when they occur over the ocean

Small Airburst in Australia. It's incredible to think that it was only 82,000 kg/TNT. What if it had been in the millions, or even just in the hundreds of thousands? Then imagine this over water and above cetaceans. The one off the coast of Mexico on March 27 was 2.4 million kg/TNT. 

2025, April 21. Australia, New South Wales, near Queensland border at the Gibraltar Nature Reserve. Airburst. Coordinates: (29.1 South, 151.6 East). Travelling NW or NNW was seen from Melbourne in Victoria to Bundaberg in Queensland, over 1600 km apart. Colour: Blue-Green. Energy: e = 2.3 × ^10j. -e = 0.082 or 82,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 41km. Velocity: NA. Time: 09:27 UT, 19:23 AEST. The sound had delayed and concurrent properties. The sonic boom was heard at Stanthorpe (NSW) 58km away and was described as “a massive boom”. At Sandy Flat, houses were shaken shortly after the meteor exploded. A witness stated they, “saw the flash from lounge room window and shortly after heard a big bang, shaking the house like bad thunder”. 

The trajectory in the map below is preliminary.

Early image of a meteor bursting over Melbourne in 1934

I came across this early image of a meteor bursting over Melbourne on August 24, 1934. Victoria, Jolimont and Brunswick. Travelling S.W to N.E. The meteor, which was followed by a trail of light-blue smoke, was bright blue-white at first, changing to bright orange.  

Dead Whale

 2024, January 30. Victoria, Apollo Bay. Dead whale washed ashore. Shark warning issued.