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Originally posted by plejaren-spirit
i dont mean to be ironic but in the right hand corner IS THAT A UFO?
Originally posted by internos
Videos available so far:
CTV Calgary: Camilla Di Giuseppe with details 1:52
CTV Edmonton Extended: A security camera at the station catches the meteor approaching 0:11
CTV Edmonton: Amateur astronomer captures a flash in the sky using a special camera 0:41
[edit on 20/11/2008 by internos]
Originally posted by internos
Whatever it was, it looks to be in two parts: you can outline two different streaks.
[edit on 21/11/2008 by internos]
Originally posted by plejaren-spirit
hope this isnt counting as a double post but WHAT IS THAT ON THE RIGHT HAND CORNER!!
Originally posted by MoonMine
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Blossom´s space ship is not only late, but crashes in Canada due to a defective flight stabilizer...
[edit on 20-11-2008 by MoonMine]
Please, dont mention Blossom again, becouse i just want to forget her. She has some mental problems, she need therapy.
Prairie astronomers are investigating following last night's excitement about a ball of fire observed shooting from the northern sky.
Alan Dyer, an astronomer with Calgary's Telus World of Science, said sky-watchers will gather all the photographs and videos taken from various observation points to study the mysterious celestial show last night.
People who saw the huge flaming ball reported it possibly fell somewhere between Alberta and Saskatchewan.
About 5:30 p.m., a huge flash of light briefly turned the dark sky into daylight.
Meteorite investigators will focus in the area of Lloydminster and North Battleford, Sask., where reports of house-shaking came from, said Dyer.
People got so excited that RCMP in Lloydminster, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, issued a news release asking people to stop calling them.
Police did say that if anyone saw where the meteor struck, they should contact police.
Marcel Gobeil was on his acreage west of Beaumont, waiting for his wife to come home at the time.
All of a sudden I saw this big flash coming down and I thought somebody was playing tricks on me, like fireworks behind the house or something.
It's important to recover pieces of meteorite because it helps in understanding the solar system, Dyer said.
Originally posted by MoonMine
Originally posted by warrenb
did you see what i mean about the sky lighting up and going dark repeatedly, kind of weird
You know, that is EXTREMELY WEIRD.
I have seen meteorites (not in the same order of magnitude as this one) but imo it should not light up intermittently as it did.
That is very odd indeed.
Why would it do that?
MoonMine
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
my mate in the area says military has moved in and 5k radius is being evacuated. Also, the yanks are involved. wtf!
The fireball that blazed across the Prairie sky Thursday evening was likely a meteor travelling at an incredible velocity, according to one expert.
Hundreds of residents of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba reported seeing the bright light, which was also captured on security cameras.
The stunning images show the sky light up as a bright point of light blazes into view, then disappears over the horizon.
said space educator Randy Atwood.
There's a very good chance it was what we call a bull's eye, which is a meteorite crossing the sky at extremely quick velocity -- very, very fast -- and as it hits the atmosphere at about 400,000 feet, travelling at about 60 kilometres per second, this is the incredible light show that it creates,
Atwood told CTV's Canada AM the meteor was probably no bigger than a grapefruit, and may have broken into small pieces before hitting the ground, or it may have burned up entirely before touching down.
"It was a beautiful show and some people might have thought it was just over the hill, and that it was the size of a house," he said.
Astronomers and universities across Western Canada have cameras recording activity in the sky, Atwood said. If the meteor was captured by more than one of the cameras, it may be possible over the next couple of days to triangulate exactly where it touched down -- if it did.
CTV's Mike Ciona, a Saskatoon reporter who saw the sky light up on his way home from work, said it appeared to be positioned to the west and north of the city.
"It looked like a lighting bolt, the most intense lighting bolt you've ever seen, and maybe the size of three," Ciona told Canada AM.
Phone lines at CTV began to light up just minutes after the event, with residents seeking more information on what happened.
CTV Saskatoon fielded roughly 60 calls, Ciona said.