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Residents across B.C.’s South Coast were surprised on Tuesday night by what has now been confirmed to be a meteor.
Videos shared online from different areas of Metro Vancouver show two bright flashes around 9:08 p.m., followed by two booms minutes later.
There are reports from people in North Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and even Washington state hearing the big boom.
“I was just sitting on the couch. My fiancé was in the kitchen, and all of a sudden we heard this tremendous bang,” North Vancouver resident Max Hacker told Global News.
“Our sliding glass door to the balcony just started shaking. It gave a good two or three shakes in its frame, and then it all just kind of stopped, and we had this minute of, ‘Did you hear that? Yeah, I heard that. What was that?’”
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The boom was strong enough to be picked up on several seismographs, which are meant to detect earthquake activity.
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One expert confirmed that the object was a bolide, which is considered to be a bright, fireball meteor.
“It was a large object coming in and at an incredible speed, so an object of that size and that speed creates a sonic boom and it was pretty close to us, looks like it may have landed somewhere in the Lower Mainland,” Michael Unger, director of programming at the H.R. McMillan Space Centre, told Global News.
“The Earth is always being hit by something every day. It’s just about how large the object is. So right now, micrometeorites are hitting our atmosphere. They’re kind of like raining down into our backyards, but sometimes these larger objects hit and sometimes these large objects hit close to metropolitan areas. And that’s kind of what makes it rare, of course.”
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