Yesterday, I attended to a funeral in Gampaha and came back home around 9.15 pm. Our home is little bit far from the main road so I have to walk about 1km. On my way to the home yesterday, I saw something very bright, falling towards the earth. Within 4-5 seconds I lost the vision of that thing as our area is surrounded by hills. But it was falling to the north-east direction from here(Ratnapura).
When I first saw it I was stunned without knowing what it was and the first thing came to my mind was that it may be a LTTE attack. But I didn’t hear any noise. Then after little while later I thought it was a meteoroid because LTTE can’t attack from that much of high. Anyway it was much bigger than what I have seen on movies and tv.
Then in today morning when I opened Google reader I saw there’s an article from lankanewspapers.com with the heading “Mysterious noise causes panic in several areas“. According to the article there’s a possibility that it was a falling meteorite of some magnitude. Then in the lunch time news on sirasa tv their headline was also about this incident and in the news Dr. Chandana Jayarathna told they suspect that this is a meteorite and they are investigating.
