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Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies

Posted by timothy on from the interrupting-the-existing-total-darkness dept.

clarkn0va writes "Witnesses as far as 720 kilometers apart reported seeing what looked like a bright meteor falling somewhere on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary around 5:30 pm MT Thursday, according to the CBC. Here's video of the incident as seen from Edmonton."

4 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Quick Poll by kachakaach · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it reaches the ground, it's called a meteorite.

  2. PM? by DarrenBaker · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe 05:30 MT is 5:30 AM MT, not PM.

  3. Re:I saw it from the SF Bay Area by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Informative

    Matt, there was a forecast meteor shower that peaked on Tuesday morning. At about 5:40 AM Tuesday morning I saw a bright meteor over Oakland airport from the central parking lot. At about 6:45 PM Wednesday I saw another looking South in Las Vegas.

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    Bruce Perens.
  4. Re:UFO by Kagura · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. I have never seen Iridium flares. The only satellites I have seen are constantly moving dots of light with non-varying brightness. They look exactly like a star moving in a straight line at around the speed you would imagine an airplane to move at high altitude a great distance away. Here is a random link showing 75 different satellites that happened to be observed over a nine-day period.

    Here is a video of a great Iridium flare, and here is a video of a not-quite-so-great Iridium flare.