Fireball and sonic boom over Vancouver was likely meteor
Yahoo News Canada • • science
Key Points:
- Residents of Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland reported seeing a bright fireball in the night sky accompanied by a house-rattling sonic boom, which experts have confirmed was caused by a meteor.
- Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society identified the event as a "fireball," a larger and brighter type of meteor, and ruled out human-made space debris due to the short duration of the flash.
- Seismologists from Natural Resources Canada detected shaking on local seismometers at 9:10 p.m., confirming the shock was not an earthquake but likely caused by the meteor entering the atmosphere.
- Social media users shared webcam footage showing the sky lighting up across the horizon, illustrating the meteor's bright passage above the clouds
