Massive object crashes over Edmonton, Canada

Originally posted by C.H.U.D.
Read my previous posts - I've explained numerous times why this can not be a Leonid.

Yes, I saw that. You obviously know a lot more about meteors than I do.

Still fascinating. If I had more time, I'd read all 28 pages and see what exactly is so odd about it and what the implications are.

I live just outside Sandy, Oregon, near Mt. Hood.

And after asking for more detail about it from my wife just now, (note: my wife doesnt share my interest in this website, she didnt even know what ATS was until I just told her about it.) she described EXACTLY what the information said the event looked like! The color, the direction of travel, eveything!

She said that night, and just now, that shes never seen anything like it before.Man, I wish I could have seen it also!

I, for one, welcome our funny green creature overlords.

Just started reading this thread.. Sorry if this has already been posted.

www.youtube.com...

BP

Perhaps a rough idea of its flight path?

i232.photobucket.com...

Perhaps.

reply to post by BlackProjects

Hi, BlackProjects

There are these videos

Bartlett's video


Cop's car camera


CTV camera


Footage captured by Alister Ling University of Calgary


Plus this one

Latest reports are that the object made landfall in central Alberta according 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.

Ya guys wanna see it. Here is the link!


www.cbc.ca...

Sorry old info will update later...Anyone from Canada or the Alberta and Edmonton and Halifax area? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update
Scientists prepare to track down meteorite
Hanneke Brooymans, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Friday, November 21, 2008

EDMONTON - The search for the meteorite that lit up local skies is at the mercy of Mother Nature.
"As soon as the snow falls, there's no chance of finding anything until springtime," said Frank Florian, community astronomer at the Telus World of Science.
Environment Canada's forecast this morning is for a 30 per cent chance of flurries tonight. If that doesn't happen, it looks pretty good for the next few days, with no snow forecast through to Tuesday.

"If we had a lot of snowfall anywhere, trying to find a rock that gets sucked up by the snow that's underneath all this white cover, unless it was large enough to leave a large enough crater visible from the air, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack," Florian said.

That's why university researchers don't go out unless they have a small enough area to look, he says. "There's too much space, there's a lot of wooded areas, a lot of muskeg in northern Alberta that swallows up most anything, we have lakes. It's really hard to determine exactly where things could fall.

"That's why we need as many reports as we can get."

The reports build on each other, Florian explains. For example, here in Edmonton, most of the reports might say it fell just to the east. But then in Sherwood Park people could say, No, it landed by Cooking Lake or Tofield. And so on.

"It's so bright it gets misleading," Florain says. "People think because it's so bright it's really close, but it's really not.

"We really need to take a look at all the reports from Alberta and Saskatchewan and anywhere else that saw it and try to figure out by their line of sight where they saw it in relation to the horizon, which direction they were looking, how high above the horizon they saw it --start and end -- so they can make an educated guess about where it has fallen."

If people want to make a report, they should make it to the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee, a volunteer group of geologists and astronomers which serves as the coordinating body for meteorite and impact reporting and research in Canada. (miac.uqac.ca...)
All these reports help narrow the search area, though that can still be many square kilometres -- maybe 500 square kilometres or more.

Source and full article

[edit on 21/11/2008 by internos]

Ok people, I just bounced into this news searching for more info on the meteor...

Is this just a coincidence?

Does Canada or Haway have any alteration on its timezone due to the winter?

3RD LD: Japan fails in antiballistic missile test in space+

The high-tech Aegis destroyer Choukai test-fired a Standard Missile-3 interceptor near the island of Kauai at 4:24 p.m. local time, but the interceptor lost sight of the target seconds before it was supposed to hit it, the top bureaucrat of the Defense Ministry told a press conference in Tokyo.

The mock target was launched at 4:21 p.m. local time from a U.S. military facility in Hawaii, three minutes prior to the interceptor's launch.

source

reply to post by MorfeuZ


Absolutely no connection. And you're off by a day.

Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force failed to shoot down a mock ballistic missile in space with a U.S.-developed interceptor launched from a destroyer off Hawaii on Wednesday, Vice Defense Minister Kohei Masuda said Thursday.

[edit on 21-11-2008 by Phage]

reply to post by MorfeuZ


wow good find

the object hit around 5:25pm Edmonton time, I think 1 hour behind Hawaii?

time/distance would be about right if it was a rocket traveling at high velocity

hmm

reply to post by warrenb


Edmonton is in the MST time zone.

Hawaii is three hours behind.

Greenwich meantime

reply to post by Phage


Yep. My bad.
I must be high or something.

(Not a one liner)

reply to post by awakened sleeper


Wife said it was 2 am central time...

Originally posted by internos
If people want to make a report, they should make it to the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee, a volunteer group of geologists and astronomers which serves as the coordinating body for meteorite and impact reporting and research in Canada. (miac.uqac.ca...)

Forget THAT call ME... I need some more for my collection You see what they charge for that stuff these days

I mean what are the scientists gonna do with it? Stuff it in some institute basement never to be seen again

Originally posted by zorgon
Forget THAT call ME... I need some more for my collection

You see what they charge for that stuff these days

LMAO: well, let's wait that they narrow the area before, it's still too wide: if i'll find it, i'll drop you an U2U

There's an unconfirmed report a meteorite may have been found near North Battleford, but it's not known whether it's part of the meteor seen Thursday night.

I wonder if it looked like this or if this is the same one that was taped going over Edmonton on Thursday Oct. 20th. That is pretty intense

Edmonton Meteor Video



Edit due to: My bad, on lunch I didn't get through all the posts to see this had already been posted. Dur

[edit on 21-11-2008 by arizonascott]

ok as of 11am this morning, They are reporting that the meteor has landed somewhere close to Lloydminster. Its a boarder town between Alberta and Saskatchewan. If i hear anything else ill fill you ladies and lads in! Im in Edmonton so im sure more will be revealed as soon as the find stuff out!

-McDevious