Video, Pictures: Meteor Crash over Europe October 13 2009

Video October 13 Meteor over Europe below....Amazing pictures of spectacular meteor breaking up...

A massive meteor has been seen streaking across the clear skies of northern Europe, with many thinking the planet was about to be invaded by aliens, others thought that an impromptu fireworks display had begin.

Tens of thousands of people across northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium are said to have witnessed the meteor event around 7pm in the evening local time. The massive event even sent out a super sonic sound boom that rattled the entire region.

Amazing video of October 13th Europe meteor, spectacular pictures below....

Authorities including weather departments, police stations and coast guards where inundated with hundreds of phone calls in the minutes after the European meteor event.

From eyewitness, Erik Albers, to the October 13 Meteor event in Holland: "I was standing in front of my window when there was a bright flash of light and a white fireball in the sky fell apart into three smaller ones...It was "Like fireworks. A few seconds later, perhaps half a minute, there was a low rumble and the windows shook."

A Dutch astronomer from Groningen University told Dutch news radio that he could confirm that the October 13 2009 meteor was an extremely bright and rare astronomical event.

The star gazer also went on to say the October 13th meteorite broke into three large pieces after hitting the atmosphere, a search was expected to be on for any fragments of the October 13 Meteor that may have made it to the ground. However some reports say the meteor may have fallen into the North Sea.

Video below of October 13 Meteor event over Germany, Holland and Belgium from a regional airport CCT camera posted online:


Also....Stunning Pictures of the amazing October 13 meteorite over northern Europe, taken by a photographer very much in the right place at the right time, below:


October 13 2009 Meteor breaks up in the early evening sky over western Europe, witnessed by countless people in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands....