Fire in a sky: Albertans news fireball over province

Dozens of Albertans took to amicable media Wednesday dusk to news saying a vast fireball in a sky over northern tools of a province. 

Corbet Kratko was pushing nearby a intersection of Highway 21 and Westpark Boulevard in Fort Saskatchewan when he pronounced he saw a splendid light forward by a sky.

The maintenance inspector with Alberta Transportation prisoner video of what appears to be a descending fireball on his vehicle’s dashcam during approximately 5:21 p.m.

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Witness Rogan Hennie told CBC News he was pushing north nearby Lacombe, Alta., around the same time when he saw what he described as “a meteor” in a sky.

Fort McMurray resident Miguel Borges captured what he pronounced was a peep of a meteor on his home notice cameras during 5:22 p.m.

Three people from Alberta and one from Saskatchewan filed reports of fireball sightings to a American Meteor Society between 5:17 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. MST Wednesday.
 

American Meteor Society reports from Wednesday, Jan. 18. (American Meteor Society)

Chris Herd, an earth sciences highbrow and curator of a University of Alberta’s meteorite collection, told CBC News that fireball sightings can be reported to the American Meteor Society or a Meteorite Impacts Advisory Committee.

Fireball seen tonight! Here’s a news from an RASC member: fireball during 5:22 internal time, ENE during starting during 40 degrees up, pennyless detached around 25 to 30 degrees, tiny square lighten adult to about -7 follow by a vast square detonate estimated around -12 in misty cloud. Report TWOSE.

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@FrankTWOS

I’m not a usually one who saw something descending in a sky, right? #yeg

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@Movietrailer

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-meteor-edmonton-1.4492550?cmp=rss