A meteor soared across the Australian sky this week that was the size of a car when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists.

Footage of the “fireball” crashing towards the earth flooded social media with sightings of the phenomenon coming in from across both South Australia and Victoria.

This sighting had followed another meteor sighting earlier that lit up the sky and shook windows near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia earlier in the week.

Police said the earlier meteor in Alice Springs made Alice Springs show up like in daylight and was “quite magnificent.” Police received a report from a resident saying the light lasted for about five seconds and there was a “massive thunder noise and rumbling like an earthquake.”

Astronomer David Finlay, who administrates the Australia Meteor Report Facebook page, said data estimates had shown the last meteor landed in the ocean, about 400 kilometers south of Adelaide.

He estimated it would have weighed between 20 to 40 tons and would have been about the size of a four-wheel drive vehicle. He also said it was travelling at about 40,000 kilometers per hour and had an explosive yield of about 1.6 kilotons.

He told ABC, “In the four years that I’ve been running the Australian Meteor Report site, this is the biggest event we’ve seen.”

A spokesperson from Geoscience Australia said data had shown the estimated landing site was close to the border of South Australia and Victoria.

“The meteor on Tuesday night was observed travelling through the atmosphere quite close to the SA/Victoria border by our infra-sound array near Hobart, as well as at a second infra-sound array in New Caledonia,” a Geoscience Australia spokesperson said. “The meteor location is about 400 km south of Adelaide [offshore].”

Mr. Finlay said while the meteor would have broken up into fragments, he believed it would have been dangerous if its fragments had landed in a populated area.

“We’re estimating that around 3 to 4 tons would have survived atmospheric entry,” he said. “If it was over a populated area we would essentially be looking for holes in roofs and cars.”

The Biblical prophecies foretell (Luke 21, Revelation 8) that there will be signs in the heavens in the stars as signs of the Last Days indicating the world is nearing the end of this age and the appearance of Jesus Christ.

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