A thunderous boom and a bright flash over the coast of northeastern Australia Monday night may have been a "big meteor" strike, Time reports.
The Police in Central Queensland were inundated with phone calls after residents felt the earth shake and saw a bright light trail across the sky..
The Australian government’s geological survey, Geosciences Australia, confirmed that a "tremor" near the city of Gladstone at around 8:30 p.m. local time was not an earthquake.