{"id":520143,"date":"2026-03-07T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:57:16","slug":"what-was-that-in-the-sky-bright-object-reported-across-alberta-discoverairdrie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520143\/","title":{"rendered":"What was that in the sky? Bright object reported across Alberta &#8211; DiscoverAirdrie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple observers in Alberta reported seeing a bright object in the sky Thursday evening, with several sightings logged with the American Meteor Society.<\/p>\n<p>The society\u2019s online reporting system lists several pending reports from March 5, including sightings in Calgary, Banff, Medicine Hat, Wetaskiwin and M\u00een\u00ee Thn\u00ee.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta reports shown on the page were logged between about 7:52 p.m. and 8:03 p.m. Mountain Time, with several entries coming from the Calgary area.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the reports describe what may have been a fireball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/\/members\/imo_view\/browse_reports?country=CA%7CCanada&amp;start_date=1969-12-31+19%3A00%3A00&amp;end_date=&amp;event=PENDING&amp;event_id=&amp;event_year=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aa\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"cfb3657d-f238-4611-a55d-8f034cab9712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled_76.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society describes a fireball as a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude \u22124, roughly comparable in brightness to the planet Venus in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Witness descriptions vary. One Calgary observer reported fragmentation, writing that there were \u201cParts splitting off and streaking alongside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another observer in M\u00een\u00ee Thn\u00ee wrote that the object was \u201cin many small bits\u201d and \u201cmoved extremely slow,\u201d adding it looked like \u201ca light fire and every single piece of debris was moving in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society collects public reports of bright meteors from around the world. When multiple sightings appear to describe the same event, those reports can sometimes help researchers estimate the object\u2019s path through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, the Alberta entries remained listed as pending reports, and it was not yet clear whether they all refer to the same object.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who believes they witnessed the object can submit a report through the American Meteor Society\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Send your news tips, story ideas, pictures, and videos to news@discoverairdrie.com. You can also message and follow us on Twitter: @AIR1061FM.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple observers in Alberta reported seeing a bright object in the sky Thursday evening, with several sightings logged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-520143","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\/520143","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=520143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}