{"id":334019,"date":"2026-03-07T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:02:10","slug":"alberta-residents-stunned-as-fireballs-light-up-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334019\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Residents Stunned as Fireballs Light Up Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alberta residents were wowed when fireballs lit up the night sky late Thursday, March 5, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/J9tx8CdxiVo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">news reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">David Ronayne captured video of the phenomenon over Calgary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the footage, he can be heard saying, \u201cThat\u2019s a big honking \u2026 that\u2019s insane!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/\/members\/imo_view\/browse_reports?event=PENDING\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reports<\/a> were made to the American Meteor Society regarding the fireballs, though the objects had not been officially identified by space agencies as of Friday morning. Credit: David Ronayne via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta residents were wowed when fireballs lit up the night sky late Thursday, March 5, according to news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153683,153681,153682,61,60,58341,82,247],"class_list":["post-334019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-alberta-residents","tag-american-meteor-society","tag-david-ronayne","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news-reports","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}