There is no sign of the meteor that was seen flashing across parts of Gauteng at the weekend.

Scores of eyewitnesses said they saw a "fire ball" heading north of Pretoria on Saturday night.

“We were driving through Kempton Park and all of a sudden we saw this blue light, the whole sky lit up,” one witness remarked.

“We saw a sudden flash of an orange stripe in the sky, followed by a very bright explosion where the sky lit up,” another person explained.

The Johannesburg Planetarium’s Claire Flanagan said meteorites often hit the ground all over the world, but they were not often spotted by people.

“Everyday we have rocks hitting us but the thing is they mostly happen over the ocean or where nobody is living or at two in the morning or at midday when nobody can see them, so it people were lucky to actually see one,” she said.

Astronomers and scientists are still trying to locate where the meteor hit the earth.