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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."

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  1. Fireballs better than piddly shooting stars. by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've seen a lot of "shooting stars" in my time, but they don't compare at all to seeing a meteor fireball like this.
    I managed to see two in a one month period back in 2001, when leaving the office at 330-430 at night. (London, Ontario, August 20th for the first one)

    One was silent, but the other one roared like a jet shortly after it passed. I assumed that the second one was smaller but appeared the same size because it was much closer, hence the sound.

    Moments like that make me wish we had the ability to capture our memories digitally for playback.