Massive object crashes over Edmonton, Canada

Originally posted by booda

Originally posted by MemoryShock

Originally posted by borachon
Are we agreed this is a meteor yet? I think a few of you are giving the government's meteor tracking prowess a little too much credit....

Also, that's amazing footage, looks like something out of a movie

The video shows some definite light flashing in the sky. I have viewed a few meteor showers and never did the sky light up in such a fashion...

I don't think it was a meteor...

OK, how about this...it was reported as a meteorite...

uk.youtube.com...

However, it reminds me of Predator 2 when the spacecraft crashed on its way back....

reminds me of "men in black" when the bugs ship crashes near the cow...but i don't want to get the alien thing going again...

my guess is. it was that astronaut's tool bag falling to earth.lol

Interesting that everyone immediately assumes "meteorite" when a bright light is observed in the sky, even when the light does not behave like a meteorite.

When the "official" media confirms that it was a meteorite, it is time for us to suspect tht it might be something else.

vBreezo

Originally posted by AKARonco
my guess is. it was that astronaut's tool bag falling to earth.lol

Ha! I seen that! I bet he / she felt like a right idiot! lol

Sorry for the off topic post.

reply to post by plejaren-spirit


Sorry my mistake!!

Mexico 20.11.2008

Another article:
Pieces of large meteor may have landed in central Sask.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

SASKATOON — A leading researcher says one of the largest meteors to streak over Canada in the last decade broke up into pieces that may have landed in central Saskatchewan.

Planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand, from the University of Calgary, says he is preparing to travel to the Manitou Lake area near the town of Macklin, Sask., about 100 kilometres south of Lloydminster, near the Alberta boundary.

He hopes to find more witnesses there that could lead him to the location of fallen meteorite rocks, valuable to understanding the history of the solar system.
The meteor lit up the sky Thursday night, with sightings reported from Edmonton to Regina to Swan River, Man.
Witnesses heard sonic boom rumblings and reported it was as bright as the sun.
Hildebrand says the meteor contained about a tenth of a kiloton of energy when it entered the earth’s atmosphere, equal to 100 tons of the chemical explosive TNT, or the same brightness as a billion-watt light bulb.

www.edmontonsun.com...

Originally posted by NGC2736
reply to post by mpeake

 

While it has been tentatively identified as a meteor, there seems some question on this from those who think/feel this was holographic in nature.

Let's wait and see what's found before we decide if this needs a move. So far it fills the criteria for this forum, in that it was a "light in the sky" that caused some concern to those who viewed and filmed it.

I can definitely understand the cause for speculation... since we don't always film the thousands of meteors that fall through earth's atmosphere each year we certainly wouldn't immediately recognize the sight as a meteor. However, I would think that the opposite of your reasoning would be the case...I mean that this would have been placed in a different forum until there was some evidence pointing to it not being a meteor, then this would fit quite nicely with the alien lore.

Anyhoo...very neat footage and good discussion all around. I'm not convinced at all that this is suspect. But, would LOVE to be wrong

Here is a dashboard cam video of the meteor from a cop car:

VIDEO

[edit on 21-11-2008 by LuDaCrIs]

A meteor with green light....( I was lucky to see it 2 times in my life)
700 messages, 300 flags...
and this thread still in ufo forum and not in astronomy forum? why?

Shuttle Endeavour 16.11.2008

Originally posted by MemoryShock

Originally posted by borachon
Are we agreed this is a meteor yet? I think a few of you are giving the government's meteor tracking prowess a little too much credit....

Also, that's amazing footage, looks like something out of a movie

The video shows some definite light flashing in the sky. I have viewed a few meteor showers and never did the sky light up in such a fashion...

I don't think it was a meteor...

Whilst it's true that this looks like no ordinary shower meteor, that is because it was no meteor from one of the well known meteor showers.

This is looking like it was a small asteroid, and you can watch meteor showers all your life and not see one like this. They are random, so watching during the peaks of the main showers probably won' t increase your chances by much if at all of seeing one.

If you've ever observed the Taurids, you'd probably have seen some flickering meteors.

Here's some footage of one: leonid.arc.nasa.gov...

Check out this link for more examples: uk.youtube.com...

I've also written a primer on identifying meteors and their characteristics that can be found here : www.abovetopsecret.com...

WOW! This is amazing. I just found this thread! I SAW IT LAST NIGHT. And I live in Northern California, about 2 hours north of San Francisco. I had just got off work, I left the building in the dark, typically around 5:15pm, and had just reached my car, and looked north, and saw this very large fireball. I didn't look at my watch, but it could have been any time between 5:10 and 5:25 p.m. or so. Where I was at, it was going from the east to the west, or in a westerly direction. Knowing how directions can be off, it could have been going partly north west, or even south west, and I probably wouldn’t have known. I remember thinking it was ‘low’, or lower than the shooting stars I’ve seen in my life, but I also thought, ‘wow, what is burning up?’. And what I saw, burned ‘out’ before it appeared to hit anything. I also remember thinking, ‘that is so large, even if it burned out, could there be something more that went on and hit the ground?’ It went quite a distance across the sky.

So by today, I kind of had forgotten about it, and when I stumbled on this thread, and the link to the CTV Edmond News video, edmonton.ctv.ca... , I said to myself, WOW, that is EXACTLY IT Maybe a little smaller looking down here, but it was still large to me. It was a bright white/yellow/orange fireball going across the sky.

I am so amazed, now that I know it was in Canada, that I saw it down here in California! COOL!

[edit on 21-11-2008 by KathyT]

I just checked distances between Edmonton and where I live in Calif., and it's about 1,100 miles.. Edmonton is a little east of due north from me.

[edit on 21-11-2008 by KathyT]

It so bright in the videos. Wow!

reply to post by AKARonco


Sorry if you're being facetious but how would their toolbag "fall to earth" if there's no gravity in space? wouldn't it just float off endlessly into space?

reply to post by Shocka


Gravity is everywhere. Objects in orbit are in freefall around the planet. Objects in low orbit get slowed down by the very (very) thin atmosphere at those levels and eventually fall to Earth.

[edit on 21-11-2008 by Phage]

reply to post by Phage


ohh...

reply to post by NGC2736


I promise you it was a meteor. I live in edmonton and saw it from the time it lit up to the time it broke apart and burned out.

like a typical ATS member I always keep one eye in the sky and one on the road. I was watching an airplane hoping it would be an ufo

and ......WOW there it was.

edit.... it fell at a 45 degree angle, lasted maybe 5 seconds so it didn't travel far judging by the time it hit atmosphere and by the time it burned out 5 seconds later. it was moving from north to south.

[edit on 21-11-2008 by wrathchild]

Originally posted by warrenb
reply to post by MoonMine

 

He saw that from an airtower in New Orleans?

thats quite the distance to Edmonton Canada...

was there one also in New Orleans or near there?

Now we have 3 hits?
2 in Canada and 1 in New Orleans...


[edit on 20-11-2008 by warrenb]

Where was the orbiting Space Shuttle when this was transpiring?

Were they in line-of site to see it hit...or separate before impact?
Always like to think somebody can spot these things in-coming.