© Michael Boschat People in several areas of Nova Scotia spotted flaming objects in the sky Sunday evening. Michael Boschat captured this image near Halifax.
Reports of sightings were spread over a large area, with similar descriptions, leading many to think it was a meteorite.
Andrea Thompson of Onslow had just arrived home with her husband and daughter at 6 p.m.
"We were still in the car and facing toward Truro Heights," she said. "We all saw what looked like a massive fireball high in the sky. It was definitely something that was on fire and it burned up before 6:01."
The show lasted about 20 seconds.
Comment: Yes, the Geminid meteor shower is active at present. But it is well worth remembering what can come out of the sky without any warning at all, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor from February 2013:
For more on the very high probability of Earth soon being on the receiving end of a major cometary bombardment, and why, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series:
- Tunguska, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction
- Letters From the Edge
- Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls
- Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth?
- Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
- Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!
- New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection
- The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets
- Cosmic Turkey Shoot
- Wars, Pestilence and Witches
- Thirty Years of Cults and Comets
- Comet Biela and Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
- Tunguska, the Horns of the Moon and Evolution
And the books: Comets and the Horns of Moses by Laura Knight-Jadczykand Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron
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