A bright light that looked like a fireball lit up the whole northern sky over Canada's Maritime provinces early this morning, callers to CBC morning shows reported.
Nova Scotia callers reported the bright light over Halifax, Dartmouth, Chester, Mount Uniacke, Truro, and Wentworth at about 5 a.m. AT.
'I looked out the window and caught it out of the corner of my eye, this ball of fire come down out of the sky.'- Jeff Locke
Rick Parker, who lives on Mattatall Lake near Wentworth, N.S., said the light was so bright it got him out of bed.
"It was a bright light and it lit up the whole sky, and when I looked out the window, I just saw what appeared to be maybe the tail end of it, if you like, and it was almost like a meteor but not the same," he said. "It was falling in the northern horizon."
The International Space Station was passing over the region at the time, but Parker said he has seen the ISS passing over before, and this was something else.
"This was much, much brighter. It started as a bright light. It lit up the sky enough to make me look out. I was just lying in bed, thinking about a fire in the wood stove, actually, and it lit up the whole sky. I mean it was very bright."
According to NASA, the ISS had to dodge a piece of space debris that was in its orbit Sunday. The debris was from a Russian weather satellite launched in 1979.
Burning space junk is one possible explanation for the fireball that was witnessed Tuesday morning. The Associated Press reported the ISS fired its on-board thrusters, pushing the orbiting lab about a kilometre.
Over New Brunswick, P.E.I., Que.
In New Brunswick, callers reported seeing the light in Saint John, Woodstock, Fredericton and Moncton. There were also reports from P.E.I. and parts of Quebec near the Gaspé Peninsula.
Capt. Dan Roy, with the New Brunswick's Keswick Valley Fire Department, also saw the fireball.
The International Space Station was passing over the region at the time, but Rick Parker said he has seen the ISS passing over before, and this was something else. "This was much, much brighter."
"On my way home from a fire call in Chateau Heights around 5 a.m. this morning, I witnessed what I thought was an airplane falling from the sky. There were flames and sparks and then it just disappeared. Not like any [meteor] I've ever seen before," he said.
Jeff Locke, who lives in Fredericton, said the "fireball" he saw lasted about three seconds.
"I looked out the window and caught it out of the corner of my eye," he said. "This ball of fire came down out of the sky. I've got two big fir trees out here on my front lawn, and the light showed between those two trees, and I mean, it came down out of the sky. It wasn't just up over above the trees. It was like somebody had fired a flare out of their gun or something."
Morris McIntyre, who lives in Charlottetown, said he's not sure what he saw.
"It was just this great big orange ball. It was like the sun was dropping out of the sky," he said.
George Hayes, a cattle farmer from Shigawake, Que., said he and his wife were awoken by something that sounded like thunder.
"It sounded a lot like thunder, it was just about 4 o'clock [ET], and we're in calving season here, so any little noise we usually awaken, and this was a loud rumble of thunder. My wife and I both woke up," he said.
Hayes said he thought the noise might have been a structure on his farm falling down.
"I went out to check on the animals and they had been disturbed, they all ran outside and they were as startled as we were," he said.
'That's all we know'
Chris Fair of Beresford, N.B., said he also saw the bright flash of light at about 5 a.m. AT, followed by what looked like the remnants of a flare falling into the woods behind his house.
Bill Burgoyne said some forestry workers southeast of Plaster Rock, N.B. saw it, too.
In Saint John, a CBC listener said she spotted a white, glowing ball in the northern sky while she was driving into work in Millidgeville.
Nova Scotia RCMP Sgt. Al LeBlanc said RCMP received two calls from the Chester area at 5:09 a.m. about a "yellow flare" in the sky.
"That's all we know at this time," he said.
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