Video captures apparent meteor lighting up the night sky on Vancouver Island
Posted on: Apr 30, 2026 05:42 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Reddit user captures video of plain shooting star o'er Victoria, B.C.
A bright fireball was seen streaking across the night sky over Victoria, on Vancouver Island, on Tuesday night.
The American Meteor Society said it received over 100 reports about the fireball, stretching as far south as Oregon.
Michael Unger, the director of programming at Vancouver's H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, said that the footage appears to show a meteor.
Unger said the meteor sighted on Tuesday was similar to one that shot across B.C. In early March, causing a loud boom that was heard in multiple communities.
He said people are drawn to meteors and fireballs — a term usually used to refer to meteors larger and brighter than normal — because one represents "literally an alien rock that is coming to us," and people 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 said.
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