Anyone else see that? - Fireball in Eastern Sky

[Daradon]

Just wondering if anyone else caught this,

I was just out for a walk and on my way home when I saw a streaking fireball across the eastern sky. Glowing the way a meteorite would, kinda greenish, flares of white and orange, but it was super close if it was. You could see bits of it breaking off and making small trails of their own before fizzling out, and flaring up as it would do so.

Wanted to put this out there in case anyone else saw it, I would hate to have been tricked by a firework or something like that, but it's trajectory and arc, along with the more random way it was flaring up and burning seemed to suggest it was not.

It fizzled out before it fell to the horizon, but for an instant you could still make out particulates in the air.

If it was a meteorite, those pebbles (or dust?) are probably around somewhere close.

I was in Chapparal near the main intersection of Lake Chaparral and Chaparral Ridge, looking out eastward.

Anyone else see this?

Oh, it would have been around 11:20 PM (Thursday)

Edit: To fix spelling and add the time.

[KevanGuy]

Oh man, I am so glad you posted this. I thought I was taking crazy pills! My sliding door faces east and it caught my eye, I jumped up out of my seat and only saw if for about 5 seconds before it fizzled out. There is no way it was a firework if you saw it in Chapparal and I saw it on Heritage Drive. It burned out directly east of my place.

I wonder what the hell it was? It didnt make any noise so I dont know if it was a meteorite. You'd think something like that would at least make some noise. Craziness.

[Hack&Lube]

It was Superman coming to earth.

[Daradon]

I'm glad you saw it KevanGuy I was beginning to wonder myself. I've seen hundreds of meteorites before (loved to watch the Leonids years ago when they were heavy) and yeah, sometimes the bigger ones or the ones that explode, you do hear that little 'pop' or sound like that. This one, no sound that I could hear, but definitely the biggest (or closest) one I have ever seen. It was huge! The no sound thing bugged me too, but most people you tell you've 'heard' a meteroite just look at you funny anyway.

So I guess it was a really big one that landed really far away, or a regular one that landed locally. I know that most of them burn up completely in the atmosphere, but that one had to have left something behind, and looked to me as though it had travelled through the atmosphere and made through to the other side.

I'll be paying attention to the local news tomorrow to see if anyone else saw it or caught it on tape.

[KevanGuy]

Yeah, I was lookin around and a couple people at beyond.ca saw it too. I guess it is tough to judge distance on these things but it sure didnt seem like it was way up in the atmosphere eh? It felt a lot closer. I'm one for the meteor showers too and this was nothing like a 'shooting star'. I might even call the Planatairum tomorrow. Too curious.

[Cheese]

It mustve been a UFO guys...do any of you feel any pain in the rectal area? Are you missing teeth or do you feel a need to build large mud mountains in your living room?

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It was Superman coming to earth.

It was Dion arriving in town for the Stampede.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by Cheese

It mustve been a UFO guys...do any of you feel any pain in the rectal area? Are you missing teeth or do you feel a need to build large mud mountains in your living room?

Lol I think you mean alien spacecraft if you are talking about rectal pain. Technically a UFO is anything that can't be identified which actually would be a lot more correct in this situation.

But I don't really believe in alien spacecrafts or greys or anything like that anyway. I mean alien life could exist, but if they had the technology to bend time and space, (which they'd have to, to travel such distances) I doubt they'd spend much time here. Why come visit us when you could go to the end of the universe, the beginning of time, understand god and existance?

I think it was a meteorite.

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Why come visit us when you could go to the end of the universe, the beginning of time, understand god and existance?

Comic relief?

[troutman]

God is raining down his wrath on Calgary for welcoming "spirit worshipers" from Ghana to our city.

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=27837

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It was Superman coming to earth.

No, it was my ex girlfriend.

[StoneCole]

Originally Posted by Buff

No, it was my ex girlfriend.

She's a fatty.

[North East Goon]

You werent just gazing beyond scottsman hill were you, after a few drinks? Kidding, have we heard anything further about this?

[Neeper]

I was fishing last night on the Bow and also saw the metorite. It was absolutely incredible!!! I gazed up to stare at it and was amazed. And then just like that, I had a huge hit on my line. I almost lost my rod because I wasn't ready! What timing!! What a night.

[Rejean31]

I was heading home from work last night in Cochrane and I thought someone was setting off fireworks. It would have been at the exact time that you guys saw this. Had quite a greenish tinge to it??

[Daradon]

^^ Yeah it was quite green, which the more spectacular ones seem to be, not your average shooting star.

I'm glad some other people saw it. I just got so excited cause it was the brightest (biggest? closest?) I had ever seen. Was wondering (hoping) if anyone maybe had a better idea on where it landed if it were that close, or we might be able to figure it out together, but I guess it was still quite a ways away. It's pretty hard to judge distance on those things. I had just never seen one quite that spectacular before, and I've seen quite a few.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

I didn't see anything last night, but a few years ago my girlfriend at the time and I were driving down Bow Bottom where it merges onto Deerfoot and we saw a bright green shooting star similiar to what you're describing. First time I'd ever seen a color tinted one before, it was pretty wild and neither of us could figure out why it would be green. It certainly wasn't fireworks.

[KevanGuy]

This thing was alot bigger then your average shooting star. By far. I cant imagine that a firework someone set off could be seen in Cochrane, Chaparral and on Heritage.

[Clarkey]

That's funny that you guys mentioned this. I saw this at the grandstand show last night of all places. It looked like a blue/green firework but it was shooting from a completely differnt direction and was flying horizontally. That's weird, a bunch of other people noticed it around me too. My first instinct was that it was an errant firework from the show.

[Calgary Flames]

Kim Jong Il did it.