© Via twitter@Eddymckay55"seen this when I was up in the woods by South Brook NL it's in three pieces in the picture, if you look."
Maybe.
Social media was abuzz Thursday as many Newfoundland and Labrador residents reported seeing what seems to be a meteor.
While the possible meteor was spotted in several areas of the province, Jamie Hickey of Muskrat Falls managed to record some video, which was uploaded to YouTube by meteorologist Eddie Sheerr.
But some people were skeptical about dubbing the burst of light as an official meteor.
One Twitter user called it "space junk," while another mused it might be a UFO.
Whatever it turns out to be, meteor sightings are not all that uncommon in the province.
Meteor showers peak during the August Perseids and December Geminids, the latter of which just occurred between Dec. 13-14 this year.
Why is this you may ask?
A) Because scientists do not want to scare anybody. So they tell our news stations "we are safe, asteroids won't hit us." That way they can correlate with today's happy trending news stories of the day. No pressure, safe, happy.
B) Because scientists want to keep their jobs. And the local University lead astronomers need that grant money, so to act like an apocalyptic freak, and tell the cameras that humans are absolutely no safer then the Dinosaurs, is a good reason for the bosses to let go of certain astronomer, because he/she just made a bunch of spoiled little kids at home watching TV get scared and start crying. Ratcheting up Soccer Mom concerns is a good way towards unemployment in this country.