People across western Canada - including in Saskatoon - saw an unknown bright object fly through the sky early Tuesday morning.

The object appeared at around 6:30 a.m., according to one witness who was out for a jog on Saskatoon streets. He said it looked like a "lit match" going across the sky from east to west.

Another witness, Cheryl Cook-Taylor, was on her way to work in North Battleford when she saw it.

"It kind of glowed green, and it looked like it was falling very, very quickly," she said. "It just kind of reminded me of a falling star or something."

Cook-Taylor said she was sorry to have missed the meteor that made national headlines last November when it streaked across the prairie sky, "so it's kind of neat I saw it this time. I guess it's good to be up that early in the morning."

The object was also seen in Calgary, where witness Donna Thompson described what she saw as "a meteor breaking up" in an e-mail sent to the Calgary Herald.

Thompson, who said she was driving on Highway 2 southbound between Olds and Calgary, said she saw the object at about 6:33 a.m. east of the highway. The flash lasted for about two seconds, Thompson said in her e-mail, before dispersing "like fireworks going off."

One account said the object was travelling roughly in a north-to-south direction east of the downtown core.