Fireball spotted shooting across southern B.C. sky
Car dashboard camera captures possible meteor streaking across night sky
A suspected meteor lit up the sky across southern British Columbia and Western Washington around 9:40 p.m. Thursday night.
Several people took to Twitter to report seeing a green meteor lighting up the night sky around the Fraser Valley.
Just watched a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/meteor?src=hash">#meteor</a> light up the Vancouver sky. Wow. <br>Looked like it was over Surrey.
—@dustylewJust saw a mind blowing meteor to the south from Coquitlam <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yvr?src=hash">#yvr</a> burning green
—@geoffeweizenGreen meteor over Western WA = the leprechauns are coming. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StPatricksDay?src=hash">#StPatricksDay</a>
—@seahawks12girlA YouTube video recorded on a dashboard camera appears to have captured the bright meteor from the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows.
The video shows a bright spot travelling in the sky, and then a sudden green flash, followed by a yellow flash a moment later.
People from as far as Victoria and West Kelowna reported similar sightings on the American Meteor Society website.
There is no confirmation yet on whether the sighting was a meteorite or other debris from space.