Location of sighting: Penampang, Malaysia
Source: http://www.hmetro.com.my/articles/Gemparcahayadarilangit/Article
Uproar light from the sky
Kota Kinabalu: The appearance of red light in the sky is clear for a few minutes and caused people to panic, but some are quick to make various assumptions including claiming the incident was caused by a meteor or comet.
It is understood that the red light was still clearly visible around Penampang and Putatan starting at 7 pm yesterday, before starting to blur and eventually disappeared at about 10pm.
A resident who only wanted to be known as Winnie, 22, said he was aware of the phenomenon when driving a car to go home, about 9pm.
"Then, I drove to Tanjung Aru and people came out of the house to see it.
"I stopped the vehicle and saw a line of light in the sky and thought it was a meteor," he said when we met yesterday.
Winnie said, the situation is somewhat unusual because the light of a comet will move, but this light appeared stationary.
