"hard-out light" from a New Zealand account of a meteor

Posted by ESC June 28, 2004In reply to "Hard-out light" from a New Zealand account of a meteor posted by abe on June 28, 2004

A .nz site describing a meteor used the phrase "hard-out light". I thought it might mean "sudden" or "bright" or something else. Thoughts?

I'm not familiar with it and a google didn't turn up anything.