CCTV cameras capture all kinds of horrid activities, but sometimes they also capture nature at its finest.

This weekend that meant two meteorites falling in the North West province, although other accounts peg them as having landed in Botswana, just the other side of our borders.

Either way, witnesses reported seeing “at least two bright fireballs” just before 7PM on Saturday.

Times LIVE report that “a local farmer near Ottosdal in North West‚ Barend Swanepoel, shared CCTV footage on Facebook of what appeared to be a meteorite hitting the earth at 6:49PM”.

Here’s that footage:

This footage was shared by Melissa Delport:

Business Insider SA is one of the sites that have the point of contact as Botswana, adding this:

The location matches an object discovered by an American near Earth object observation program, Catalina Sky Survey, with a projected impact at around the same time. It was discovered a little over eight hours before the impact.

A provisional meteorite observation report was filed for the event. The object is designated ZLAF9B2.

Here’s physicist T. Marshall Eubanks on Twitter:

That image in full:

I reckon the meteor was aiming for Supra Mahumapelo, and was an attempt by the heavens to give the North West province a little respite.

[sources:timeslive&businsider]