Bright light over Johannesburg: Meteor or prawns?

Some free marketing for the remake of "V".

There's a remake of V? Awesome! Can't wait ;-)

I was driving with a friend down Malibonge and we had just reached Hyperion and there was a half light that expanded like a circle and then daylight, I commented lightening and then turned around to see this massive red and orange trail against the sky only thing was it was going up the sky not down, it was huge at that was 10.55

It looked like the images from smallville and transcribed a massive arc across the sky from Pretoria to Edenvale from below the cloud level and then just disappeared above the cloud bank that was there

the size of that thing that I saw if it was a meteor would have made a hole the size of acre somewhere so I do not buy the meteor story

It must have been the biggest thing I have ever seen move across the sky

I know.. it was a meteor over the prawns...

This is real, my pal & I were watching the evening sky down in Fouriesburg at probably just after 11pm, the sky changed from clear black, to light sky blue, then an orange tinge and back to black, all in about 1 to 2 seconds. It was very strange, and a little scarey. But there was no meteorite to be seen. We had seen 4 or 5 small "shooting stars" a few moments before the sky went blue.

Newsflash!!!
Julius Malema said that it could not be a Meteorite and I quote...
'This metorite thing...what is this metorite thing. Don't come and push your meteorite concept onto us. There is no meteorite in Pedi!
I state categorically that it was an partnership between the ANCYL and Comrade Jacob Moroga to demonstrate that we will bring light to this country. We take credit for this light up in the sky to show that we actually have a purpose, even if it did only last for a few seconds. As this is a top secret operation, and beneficial to the public at large (I don't care what you say or whoever you are, we will crush you if you disagree) it will be necessary to reclaim the costs of the security from the taxpayer.
We will also be nationalising any reference to 'our' shining light, so that the upper-echelon cadr... sorrie, the piepol can reap benefits from it...'
He did ramble on a bit about his new holiday house on Witbank Dam being damaged that night by some strange 'bomming in the air' and accused some '5th force' of rehearsing an attack on him.
When questioned on his reference to a '5th Force' instead of the overused '3rd Force' he mentioned something about the 3rd and 4th Forces being to occupied with other shenanigans to be concerned with little-old-him.

Ends.

Just some aliens checking out for a dump site! Moved on quickly when they saw how full this one is already, or maybe they caught a glimpse of JM and took a rain check! Sure it was'nt JM's merc backfiring?

Funny how I thoought about District 9 too when I saw the headline.
Strange things might follow since no 1 knows what happened to Wikus van de Merwe now LOL

I also saw this from southern gauteng at the time mentioned but assumed it was a flair due to its low trajectory .

I saw it too from my farm at Reitz in the North-eastern Freestate. I was looking in a northern direction at 22:55 and saw a green light moving at a 45degree angle from west to east. After a few seconds it appears as if the object exploded because the whole sky lit up for a few seconds. My first thoughts was that a meteorite has struck Johannesburg!

It is recorded on this vid: http://www.snotr.com/video/3415
Check it out!! Incredible! Notice the colors when meteor passes through different layers of atmosphere.