Looks like the GOES 18 satellite just picked up a #meteor<\/a> that just burned up in the atmosphere over southern BC! It caused a huge flash of light seen all the way down in parts of Washington and a loud boom was reported in parts of southern BC! Anyone see\/hear it? pic.twitter.com\/su4OqcZSOi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jonathan Pulley (@WhidbeyWXGuy) March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n The International Meteor Organization (IMO), which was created in 1988 in response to a growing need for international cooperation of amateur meteor work, received over a dozen reports of a \u201cfireball\u201d over Metro Vancouver.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Fireball Report online form guides you through describing what you saw in a way that provides useful information to astronomers studying meteors,\u201d explained the IMO online. \u201cThe information you provide can be combined with that of other eye-witnesses to give a good estimate of the trajectory of the fireball, and to help determine if a ground fall occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n International Meteor Organization<\/p>\n Videos of the possible meteor flash were soon shared online from the YouTube livestreaming channel, Vancouver Views Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the video clipped and shared to X, a flash could be seen in the clouds above the city\u2019s skyline behind BC Place.<\/p>\n A boom could also be heard a few minutes later.<\/p>\n Videos of the meteor seen tonight around southern British Columbia and even down to Washington!<\/p>\n Time of flashes: 9:08:50 PM Vancouver. pic.twitter.com\/u09E4CacYS<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Chris Wells (@ChrisWe56184750) March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Deep Cove Kayak Centre in North Vancouver also captured the flash on its webcam.<\/p>\n \u201cGreat capture,\u201d said a commenter on the Instagram post. \u201cI live in Kitsilano, and I felt it. I heard a boom, and our house momentarily shook.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Matthew Cimone, senior space science interpreter at the HR MacMillan Space Centre, meteors are basically leftover chunks from the early solar system as the planets formed.<\/p>\n \u201cSome might cross paths with our own orbit and enter the atmosphere with great speed,\u201d Cimone told Daily Hive. \u201cMost are small grains of sand and quickly burn up as \u2018shooting stars,\u2019 but if they are larger, a metre or more in diameter, they can create sonic booms and tremendous air pressure as they ram through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, which may cause them to explode before hitting the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n \u201cThe resulting shockwave is not only loud but can damage nature and cities. The burning \u2018fireball\u2019 of a large meteor is also fabulously bright, with observers noting that night can appear as day as they illuminate the sky. Notable historical fireballs such as the Chelyabinsk meteor over Russia were brighter than the sun and damaged thousands of buildings. The Tunguska event of 1908, thought to be an exploding meteor, flattened 2 thousand square km of forest.\u201d<\/p>\n The flashes in the night sky and the sonic boom were experienced as far away as Merritt in south-central B.C. and Sedro-Wooley in Washington, according to the IMO online reports.<\/p>\n \u201cHeard what sounded almost like a firecracker in Bellingham,\u201d shared a resident. \u201cIt was such a surprising sound, I jumped.\u201d<\/p>\n Daily Hive has reached out to the Canadian Space Agency about this possible meteor and will update this story.<\/p>\n Did you see the fireball in the sky on Tuesday night, or hear the possible meteor\u2019s sonic boom over Metro Vancouver? Let us know in the comments or get in touch at vancouver@dailyhive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Vancouver](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vancouver-meteor-1024x613.jpg\"\/ "\\"\\"")
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Time of booms: 9:11:23 PM#meteor<\/a> #vancouverbc<\/a> #Washington<\/a><\/p>\n