{"id":514318,"date":"2026-03-04T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:12:07","slug":"fireball-sonic-boom-over-vancouver-tuesday-evening-likely-meteor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514318\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball, sonic boom over Vancouver Tuesday evening, likely meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fireball, sonic boom<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Mar 4, 2026 \/ 6:30 am | Story: 601810<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"The downtown Vancouver skyline is seen on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/21291434f5c0daa99e31bc3d2ee44fc5d4611cf53217544f0b7e5aa6d5d7f7b2_p4220468.jpg\" style=\"height:422px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>FILE-The downtown Vancouver skyline is seen on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>British Columbians took to social media Tuesday evening to share reports of a bright fireball in the night sky over Vancouver, and a house-rattling sonic boom.<\/p>\n<p>All indications suggest the region was witness to a significant meteor, scientifically known as a bolide.<\/p>\n<p>Bolides are typically chunks of rock or ice, from asteroids or comets, that burn brightly in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere before exploding.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened shortly after 9 p.m. Pacific time, with the sonic boom strong enough to register on multiple area seismographs, which measure and record ground motion, vibrations and seismic waves.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, people have also been sharing webcam footage showing the sky brightening, from one horizon to the other, as the suspected meteor soars above the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Witness reports say the flash was seen over a long range, while the sonic boom could be heard from the Fraser Valley to Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fireball, sonic boom The Canadian Press &#8211; Mar 4, 2026 \/ 6:30 am | Story: 601810 Photo: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-514318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}