Video footage has emerged of what appears to be a meteor streaking across the skies above WA on Monday morning.
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Radio 6PR was swamped with callers who claimed to have seen a bright flash across the sky just after 9.30am.
Trevor who recorded the vision below told Radio 6PR he was driving along Roe Highway when he saw a white speck.
"I just seen this white flash and thought 'what the hell'," he said.
"I just pushed the record button and thought when I get to the yard; I will have a look at it on the computer.
"It came from behind me... I just saw a white tail, it was a white speck to begin with, but having looked at the vision it looks almost like a fireball."
Another caller to Radio 6PR said it was like the "sun was on fire".
Twitter user Sarah Brown said she was near the Cottesloe Golf Course when she saw a streak of "bright white blue light" with a round rainbow coloured head shooting through the sky and burn up just metres from the ground.
Some have reported seeing the meteor as far south as Margaret River.
Brian Braddock told Fairfax Media he saw the meteor with a friend in Bruce Rock in a north west direction at 30 degrees.
"It was like a HID [high intensity discharge] light, then turned red and vanished," he said.
Planetary science expert Professor Phil Bland, from the Curtin University, told Radio 6PR it must've been a "big chunk of rock" for it to be visible during the day.
"And because of its size it may have left a meteorite on the ground," he said.
"These things are very rare and any time when can get our hands on [remnants] it's amazing.
"It would probably have come from the asteroid belt... they mostly hit the top of our atmosphere about 20 kms per second...so really fast and then push through.
"The air heats them up and melts a load of them and often that's enough to melt the whole thing."
Richard Tonello from Astronomy Education Services said it was "highly unlikely" the meteor made it to land.
"I haven't seen it but I'm 99.9 per cent sure it was a meteorite," he told FairFax Media.
"It would have been the size of a basketball but it would have heated up and split into tiny fragments.
"If it did reach landfall it would've been the size of 20 cent pieces."
Mr Tonello said it was even more "highly unlikely" the meteorite landed in someone's backyard.
"When people see the meteorite it is about 90-100 kilometres up, but people think they saw it out in the suburbs. It's more than likely it ended up in Cunderdin or the Southern Cross.
"But it is extremely rare."
Did you capture the flash? Email your photos or video to tcarrier@fairfaxmedia.com.au.
