© twitterCrater on Highway 61 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada after possible meteorite hits the ground on December 13, 2017
Object spotted by officers Wednesday night, but now police, investigating expert can't find itA loud explosion that shook houses in a semi-rural part of Thunder Bay, Ont., Wednesday evening
may have been caused by a meteorite that landed on the outskirts of the northwestern Ontario city, according to local police.
Patrol officers were dispatched to the area of Highway 61 and Mount Forest Boulevard Wednesday around 11 p.m., to investigate, police said in a written release.
They were called by area resident Linda Pohole, who lives near the Mount Forest subdivision. She said she heard an explosion.
"I called it in thinking that something happened in Mount Forest, and maybe a house exploded," she said.
"It was that loud, and my son said he felt the house vibrate."Police searched the area and found a large, round hole in the snow on the side of the Highway 61, in the area of Mount Forest Boulevard. There were no footprints or vehicle tire tracks in the vicinity.
Comment: A couple of months ago meteorites hit roofs in South Africa and the US. Mysterious booms are increasing dramatically all over the planet, which may be indicative of space rock fragments exploding in the atmosphere.
Even NASA's own space data supports citizens' recent observations, namely the inconvenient fact that meteor fireballs are increasing dramatically.