Incredible moment mysterious bright green light flashes across the night sky in Western Australia

Incredible footage has captured a green light flashing across the sky in Western Australia with the mysterious phenomenon stunning Australians.

A green flash thought to have been a meteor – though there are several other theories, including that it was a UFO – suddenly lit up the night sky on Wednesday. 

Many people caught the phenomenon on their dashcams and shared the extraordinary event to social media. 

One short clip opened with a car on a highway in Baldivis, a semi-rural residential suburb 46km south of Perth.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a bright light appeared in the top right of the video. 

Within a second, it exploded into a luminous green ball with a long tail, streaking across the sky.

Seconds later, it was all over, as the light fizzled out and faded away – disappearing as quickly as it had formed in the first place. 

The video of the spooky light show was appreciated by those who saw the video on Facebook. 

‘That’s incredible! Such a good capture,’ wrote one.

‘Definitely a meteor,’ a commenter with some knowledge on the night sky wrote. 

Another said they were ‘driving up Nairn Drive as it happened. It was beautiful!! time to buy a Lotto ticket?’

Others agreed about how impressive the light show provided free by nature was. 

‘It was so cool. Never seen anything like that before,’ wrote one. 

‘Amazing to see and scary at the same time,’ said another. 

Though the light was probably a meteor, it didn’t stop people from suggesting other possible causes. 

The other theories included that it may have been a helicopter, space junk burning up on re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere, or even that it may have been an unidentified flying object. 

But mostly, people were just happy they saw it. 

‘I’m so glad so many people saw it too because it was insane!!!!!!!!!!,’ wrote one. 

‘It was like magic I legit forgot how to speak for a second.’

The Perth Observatory said on social media that it was a ‘bloody ripper of a meteor’.

‘Our Facebook page, info email address and phones have been inundated with people who saw this beautiful meteor tonight at 8.50 pm from around the South West of WA,’ the Observatory said on Facebook.

‘The team at Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network are trying to work out the trajectory of the meteor because it’s so bright.

‘The Earth may have gotten a few kilograms heavier with a meteorite somewhere in the southwest of WA.’