Massive object crashes over Edmonton, Canada

reply to post by rapinbatsisaltherage


Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, I was a bit excited waiting on the news.

After seeing what I did on the news, your video does resemble the news video somewhat. Moreso than what I seen with the naked eye.

reply to post by xynephadyn


You realize that Google Earth images are not real time don't you?
I guess not.

THE CANADIAN PRESS
21/01/08


SPRUCE GROVE, Alta. — The mystery of what Spruce Grove residents believe was a meteorite began to unravel Sunday after an eyewitness came forward to say he’d seen a fireball shoot down from the sky.
“I first thought it was a shooting star, but it wasn’t burning out,” said Eric Whyte, who was driving southbound on Highway 2 between St. Albert and Morinville around 10 p.m. Thursday.
“It was a big ball of fire, bright orangey in colour and there was a big tail behind it.”
Astronomer Martin Beech said the sighting of a fireball is crucial in determining whether it was a meteorite. But he couldn’t say for sure what dropped into the frozen pond at The Links at Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton.
Derrick Zienowicz was the first one to see the strange octopus-shaped hole in the frozen golf-course pond Saturday morning.
He immediately told his neighbours Tina Danyluk and James Shankowski, whose house is closest to the strange marks.
They initially believed the strange marks were made late Friday night or early Saturday.
But both Shankowski and Zienowicz said it’s possible the marks have been there since Thursday night because none of them looked out their back windows Friday.
About 10 p.m. Thursday, Zienowicz said he felt his house shake while he was standing in the kitchen.
"It’s kinda weird. For about 10 seconds, the house shook. I said, ’What the heck was that?’"
He now suspects it was associated with the fireball and the strange marks.
A bright burning ball with an associated sonic boom normally indicates a falling meteor, said Beech, who teaches astronomy at Campion College in the University of Regina.
(Edmonton Sun)

that article is old... it punched a perfect hole in the ice... pretty cool but not this incident

Im not a real big Google Earth person but I was told that there is a live version as well..any truth to what I was told ATS?...Would be cool if it was true!!

6:12 am in uk nothing on the news here as yet, stayed up all night for this any links for the new footage yet guys?

Reports of meteor streaking across Prairies

A bright light lit up the sky around 5:30 MT Thursday evening in Western Canada, with people reporting sightings in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

People telephoned the CBC newsrooms in Edmonton and Calgary to talk about what they saw.

"It was a really big flash, lit up the sky, and there was this huge, flaming fireball falling from the sky," said Rowyn Windsor, 12, who lives on the Canadian Forces base in Cold Lake, Alta., about 350 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

"This huge light in our kitchen window lit up our whole kitchen," said Sabrina Schneider, who lives just outside Lloydminster on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. "It kinda flashed a couple of times. It was really bright. It was a different light than lightning.

"We weren't really sure what happened ... got up to look out the window, and all of a sudden, we heard this rumbling."

Schneider said her sister saw the meteor while she was driving past North Battleford, Sask.

Torey Van Vam was driving north from Redcliff, Alta., outside Medicine Hat when he saw a bright white streak.

"As it got closer to the ground, it was more visible as a ball of white light with green around it. And as it got really close to the ground, it turned kind of orange, and I'm pretty sure it went straight to the ground," he said.

Bev Ully, who lives on a farm near Unity, Sask., was watching TV when she saw a light through her west-facing living room window.

"It was just like there were headlights right outside the window and that something was moving. It wasn't just one big, bright flash. It was several flashes," she said.

Ully said her daughter in Brooks, in central Alberta, had told her she had seen the light as well.

The fireball was also visible in Edmonton. Kim Wingrove was driving in the city's west end when he saw something in the sky.

"I saw this large orb shoot across in an east-southeast direction, on a very steady trajectory," he said. "It was very, very big. And I've seen a lot of shooting stars from all the world as I travelled, but I've never seen one so large. It was very bright yellow, with hints of green in it. It stayed in the air ... for about two to two and a half seconds."

Alister Ling, an Edmonton-area amateur astronomer who is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, recorded the fireball using equipment from Alan Hildebrand, a meteorite researcher at the University of Calgary.

"When it flares out on the tape, you can see there's several of these multiple flashes, and that's when it's probably partly blowing up, which is also a really good indicator … that there's multiple stones that have come down," he said.

He said anyone who sees a fireball with their own eyes has a hard time judging where it came down, because fireballs stop glowing when they are 50 kilometres above the earth.

Ling said he will be consulting with other astronomers in Alberta, who will look at tapes from a local network of cameras and assess eyewitness reports to try and figure out where the fireball may have landed.

Although its early in the process, he thinks it may have fallen somewhere in central Alberta, and there could be search parties out looking for chunks as early as this weekend.

"Who knows," he said. "We might be really, really lucky."

From the comments:

I just happened to be driving my pickup north pulling a grain auger around 6:30 p.m central. It was dark and all of a sudden the inside of the truck started to light up enough to read a newspaper and I heard some rumbling. I thought what the H E double hockey sticks is there a plane crashing. Then I saw the bright ball streaking over head a little north of me heading in a south westerly direction just south of North Battleford. The ball was big with a distinct red center and a tail behind it. When it disappeared a trail which looked like smoke just hung in the air for almost a half an hour. It looked extremely low but thinking about it it could have been miles up. I wonder if anyone could calculate the meteor's altitude over N. Battleford? I'm just curious.

www.cbc.ca...

This is an amazing story! I can not believe it. Considering there was no sound, or seismic activity, I think it is safe to assume this is a Tunguska style event (though on a much smaller scale).

the new footage was just shown on one of the edmonton stations... possibly on the calgary one as welll....

the ctv news starts at 11:30 MST... so 15 minutes... hopefully they have some new video =)

This is one interesting story so far. Combined with the reports of youtube being flooded with transcripts of documents related to the discovery of the fossilized remains of microscopic lifeforms within meteorites, which preceded this most recent event, I am definitely intrigued.

Originally posted by cdnguy
the new footage was just shown on one of the edmonton stations... possibly on the calgary one as welll....

the ctv news starts at 11:30 MST... so 15 minutes... hopefully they have some new video =)

has it not shown the dash cam footage yet mate? and the hand cam?

I've seen the dash cam vid

I took some screen shots but Photobucket is messing it up

the vid is HERE

click search then type meteor and you will see the footage

EDIT: Imageshack is working for me
Second EDIT: Imageshack isn't playing nice either!!
Third EDIT: Photobucket is my friend again











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My boyfriend who was on the phone with me, saw it around 530pm his time and was speechless! Here is a link with video from it...Amazing!

watch.ctv.ca...

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Yes, hopefully someone will put the video up the Peace Officer caught from his car.

I can't wait until tomorrow.... it might take awhile to find the sight though.... they have a very large area to look...

Originally posted by warrenb
Anyone else notice that after the first flash, there was a pause and flash and pause and flash and pause and flash the it cut back to the news people


Would a meteorite do that?

i want to know what that was...this is crazy

Not sure if mentioned earlier, the video appears to be a loop... Check the traffic flow... loops

Im in edmonton, and since this event have been watch the news and listening to the radio. everyone is saying its a meteor and there is new footage one from a dash cam of a cop car which is awesome and another from some guy video taping planes... yeah planes and then caught the meteor on film. i have not been able to find that footage online yet but it is good! but here is a link to some footage one from a security camera its pretty good and then one from another camera that is always watching the sky! enjoy!

-McDevious

I was just checking outt the video that the guy caught on his camera.... it looks like it breaks apart fairly close to the ground... however it's very tough to say if there'll be anything left.... that video and the dashcam video look almost completely different...

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We too saw this bright light as described by one of the men..we saw green,violet, red and orange...with a tail......we were travelling to S'toon from Red Deer and were just past the Endiang turn off.....just about as Castor when it appeared on our North side....we thought it had landed in the field beside us.....absolutely freaky!! and yet beautiful!!

Originally posted by Chadwickus
I've seen the dash cam vid

I took some screen shots but Photobucket is messing it up

the vid is HERE

click search then type meteor and you will see the footage

wow great footage looks a lot smaller than the first footage