Obvious meteor lights up evening sky over southern B.C.

A brilliant fireball was seen streaking throughout the evening sky over Victoria, on Vancouver Island, on Tuesday evening.

The American Meteor Society stated it received over 100 studies in regards to the fireball, stretching as far south as Oregon.

Michael Unger, the director of programming at Vancouver’s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, stated that the footage seems to point out a meteor.

“It definitely looks like a fireball came in pretty fast and burned up, creating a spectacular streak of light across the sky,” he informed Stephen Quinn, host of CBC’s The Early Edition.

Unger stated the meteor sighted on Tuesday was just like one which shot throughout B.C. in early March, inflicting a loud growth that was heard in a number of communities.

He stated individuals are drawn to meteors and fireballs — a time period often used to check with meteors bigger and brighter than regular — as a result of one represents “literally an alien rock that is coming to us,” and individuals are drawn to the unknown.

“Especially I think, like, in light-polluted cities where we actually don’t see as many stars or feel as connected to this night sky, when all of a sudden we see a bright flash across the sky light up, you know, it really excites us,” he stated.

CBC News has reached out to NASA to see if the U.S. area company recorded the fireball and its trajectory.