Massive fireball lights up prairie sky

[SpiralHawk]

Massive fireball lights up Prairie skies
Laura Drake, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008

EDMONTON - It wasn't a bird, and it sure as heck wasn't a plane, but whatever was in the sky over western Canada on Thursday night was very exciting for the people who saw it.

In Edmonton and across the Prairies, hundreds of people reported seeing a bright flaming object light up the sky around 5:30 p.m. local time. It was variously described as green, yellow, purple or blue, and appeared as either an explosion or an object streaking through the sky.

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Marcel Gobeil, who lives on a farm south of Edmonton, was in his living room when he heard what he describes as a "loud boom," followed by bright colourful light in the sky.

"At first I thought it was fireworks," said Gobeil. "I've never seen anything like it; it was green and blue and then turned to bright red. It was pretty big."

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http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=e318f05d-0e09-4ec4-8d2a-5b5e22fb7162

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Jeebus is Returning to Smite Teh Gay!

Or maybe Xenu ...

--p!

[Mollis]

18. hahaha

that was good

[raysr]

2. Rapture! Rapture!

"Get bags packed Maude, we's a goin' ta heeavan!!"

[BrklynLiberal]

21. I hope so...and that all those who want to go...get taken...

[TheKentuckian]

36. probably closer to but not exactly the opposite

[sarcasmo]

42. Can I have your stuff?

[CaptainObvious]

3. Video

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw

[SpiralHawk]

4. Wow

What a trip

[Barack_America]

6. That's great video.

You can see the meteor explode in the atmosphere.

Too cool.

[Warpy]

10. Looks like a mini Tunguska event

with the object exploding a few miles above the surface.

I'm glad it was a small one.

[KittyWampus]

30. what are factors involved in whether such a thing that explosive does make direct impact?

Size, speed, angle of descent?

[Warpy]

31. How big it is, what it's made of

and quite possibly what angle it enters the atmosphere at.

Those are just off the top of my head.

They never did find much at Tunguska because the thing exploded and pretty much vaporized before anything could hit.

[old mark]

38. You know that by morning some RW fundie will claim

this is god's warning for electing Obama, although why it would be delivered to Canada....
Have Canadians done something to piss off the diety recently?

mark

[surrealAmerican]

40. They had an election recently too.

Hmmmm.

[JBoy]

41. Grey Cup is on this weekend. Maybe this was part of the pre-game show.

[SCantiGOP]

5. meteor

the youtube video even describes it as such

[bdamomma]

7. looks like a meteor

[TrogL]

8. Craftygal and I saw it

She described the colours and what not (I'll let her do her own post) and I saw the living room and kitchen lit up briefly.

[cloudbase]

9. That was a

tool bag burning up on reentry.

[IDemo]

12. Winner n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

13. LOL! That was my guess! Good one! n/t

[Soylent Brice]

15. !!

:rofl:
:spray:

[slutticus]

16. You know....a green or blue flame might be some kind of copper alloy....hmmmmmmmmmmm

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

22. Aha! That's the ticket!!!

[The Doctor.]

26. Aww... beat me to it.

Space junk burns up real pretty.

[myrna minx]

11. That's one amazing meteor! n/t

[lilymidnite]

14. I saw a meteorite in Great Basin National Park

It was amazing, with flames burning off the thing as it streaked across the sky.

But it was nothing as big as this thing.

[frylock]

17. we saw one last august while backpacking the sierra..

it was during the Leonids shower and we were up in the Emigrant Wilderness. It was pretty effing incredible to see that thing at 9000'. Looked just like that dashcam vid.

[Sanity Claws]

19. Those poor lost Aliens

They were supposed to be in Alabama last month. I hope they got out alive.

[RagAss]

20. Outer Space, Young Man......Outer Space !

[underpants]

23. I... AM....

[SoCalDem]

24. Headline:.."Astronaut's Lost Tool Bag, Returned to Earth"

:rofl:

[SmileyRose]

28. my first thought too.

[The Doctor.]

25. See what happens when you drop a toolbox from orbit?

Actually, space junk is spectacular when it reenters.

[IDemo]

33. I hate when that happens

[notadmblnd]

27. maybe it was that space station refridgeration unit they said was going ro come crashing down

a couple of week ago?

[chalky]

29. Sounds like a guest to the Taurid meteor shower showed up fashionably late.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081031/sc_space/meteorshowercouldspurbrightfireballs

[Kalyke]

47. Hey - thanks for that link.

I had been seeing tons of shooting stars over the last month. This explains it.

But, I haven't, thus far, received any of the things I wished for. :)

[and-justice-for-all]

32. It was the tool bag the astronaut lost...nt

[IDemo]

34. I witnessed an asteroid years ago that entered and exited the atmosphere

It too was bright blue when it first appeared. It skimmed along at a flat trajectory, disappeared and re-appeared between the two hills defining the local ski area, and then over the horizon. I read in my Astronomy Magazine months later the headline "Cosmic Boulder Skims Rockies"; the meteor had been tracked and had escaped the atmosphere. That's a close shave.

[snot]

35. satellite photos?

don't even know if that's possible, but heck, we're surveilling everything else.

[TheKentuckian]

37. pretty awesome

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. Someone should warn Elvis about driving with his high-beams on.

[kentuck]

43. About 9:15 pm on Wednesday night....

A friend of mine at work said she saw a large flame above the sky of Colorado Springs. I wonder if it was connected in some way??

[TwilightZone]

44. Well, Canada is next to Alaska, so perhaps...

it was Sarah Palin's political career flaming out.

[icnorth]

45. Sarah says that just ain't so...

it was Putin's plane she shot down trying to enter Wasilla's no fly zone.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

46. This is obviously

THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9mEUOpoWdg