{"id":469941,"date":"2026-06-01T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469941\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:09:25","slug":"sydney-golfer-captures-rare-meteor-fireball-streaking-over-ocean-during-practice-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469941\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney golfer captures rare meteor fireball streaking over ocean during practice swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Sydney golfer Duncan Rayner accidentally captured a striking moment while filming his swing at a driving range, as a meteor passed over the ocean in the background. He completely missed the event at the time, as he was fully focused on his golf shot. Dozens of people reported seeing the \u201cfireball,\u201d with some initially mistaking it for a UFO, while others even believed the footage was AI-generated. The golfer unintentionally recorded what appears to be a meteor streaking across the sky while practicing in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney golfer Duncan Rayner accidentally captured a striking moment while filming his swing at a driving range, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-469941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}