Meteor Over Alberta, Canada The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball

[TheZAMBONILADY]

Great footage. Thanks for uploading. I saw a Boloid near Westport, Ontario in the summer of 1996 around 4:30 pm. Thought it was a plane coming down at first. It blazed out of the west and then disintigrated with a loud bang. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Then I find out that it is a once in a lifetime occurance. Weird thing is my dad and I saw another one a couple of years later. Guess it was his turn.

[mattsieluv]

Remarkable that somebody else caught this meteor on camera. It would be so easy today to capture multiple-views of one given all the cameras that are around us and available. But things were very different in 1972, not everybody had one and used it all the time. There is the better known home footage of this from Grand Teton National Park, but somebody in Alberta was also lucky enough to have a camera out and be able to get it on film. And a daylight meteor is even more rare to see.

[ericou812]

:48,cool!!

[muleteammate]

Estimated size of of the object that created Meteor Crater in Arizona was ~100 feet in diameter.

[ForceField9]

The damage of this meteor, if it had indeed impacted the Earth's surface, would have been the equivalent of a Hiroshima-like nuclear bomb. Per Wikipedia

[Kawaiibat]

How much damage would a 102 feet across meteorite caused?

[heathey2]

It would have produced a crater something like that of the one in Arizona but probably a bit smaller. If it hit the sea then it would have produced a fairly destructive tsunami.

[HoveringAboveMyself]

@Kawaiibat is too small to survive entering the atmosphere, they explode in it like the one in the video causing no damage.

[tr41]

If I am not totaly mistaken; A meteor of the size in this video would depending on density, angle and velocity do anything from exploding in an airburst with up to a few tens of megatons TNT equivalent, to hitting the ground in a partialy broken up state and create a crater up to a few km's wide. Nothing too serious, though people within a circle of about a 30km radius might not agree. Outside that it would be mostly quake damage that could pose a problem.

[22871987]

How fast does a meteor travel?

[chuckbyf1]

@22871987 The one that struck the Arizona desert was extimated to be traveling 11km/sec. Now that's fast. We wouldn't see it coming. Just hear and feel it.

[carpentersdaughter2]

In January of 2008 at two thirty in the morning, my husband and I saw a huge ball of flames streaking across the sky. Ever since then I keep an eye out for articles and videos to see if they are the same thing as I saw.

They are so cool to see.

[rotateaxis]

I saw one on a night in sri lanka at 8:00 pm and it dashed like a rocket over my head ,but it was completely burning blue

[sharbel12]

i saw one in haifa.. for 1.5 seconds.. it left smoke.. nothing special not those huge meteors that last for 10 seconds

[lunndonbridge]

They overstated the size of the meteor. It's estimated to have been ten to sixty feet(granted its still big). Along with the whole meteor/meteorite thing the show obviously didn't put too much effort into detail which is a surprise for a british educational show.

[sofianbelhedi]

yesterday the 14.10.2009 i saw one here in nothern germany like that short after sunset it was so beautifull with lots of colors and it took some 20 seconds or so till it disapaired behind my horiziont

[nickcars100]

i saw a meteor last night.......but just before it came i saw something like airplane lights flashing but it was stationary.then it came....dont know what it means but.

[Rob187ok]

I saw one of those go from one side of the sky to the other. About 90 mins later I saw it pass over again traveling at the same speed and in the same direction. It didn't flicker and it had a well defined pointed tail. It looked as if it was very big and extremely high up. I thought that maybe it was just scimming the top of the atmosphere and may have eventually bounced back into space,,,but who knows. It may have come down out to sea somewhere. It was amazing to see and very bright.

[hubergeek]

I saw one when I was like 8 years old. It turned the night into daylight.

This was in 1978 in the Caribbean Dominican Republic.

[TheScout18]

I am 19 years old, and I have actually seen two very big meteorites.. very lucky I guess :) the first time I saw one, at first It seemed to be the size of a football, and about 200 m away.. I expected it to hit a mountain that it was heading towards.. suddenly the sky lit up, and It went over the mountain and probably hit the atlantic ocean behind the mountain. that was when I realized how enormous it really was.

[TheRealBlackHair]

a beauty

[mirsh123]

id do anything 2 see one there amazing

[iwin4u2]

I saw the one over Edmonton on June 11, 1982 at 11:00pm it was spectacular - lots of colours and lit the whole sky up to braod daylight.

[1godfather01]

That twas insane! :O

[MysteryPoison]

I must say...that this is... beautiful;)

[EdgarTheGreen]

That's not a meteor, its Goku!

[Datsune]

YES! THATS MADE MY DAY WOOO!

[FlyMan2009]

LOOOL ur funny

[DarrenRBaker]

Was this the 8mm footage from Utah, not Alberta?

[BrianKeithO]

It's a meteor not a meteorite. Meteorites have already fallen. Meteors are still in sky.

[1progressive]

dies anyway detect or no

[lifefeedsonlifefeeds]

anyone of you seen the one form last night? in the edmonton area??

[TheMysteryWaffle]

what?? i live in Edmonton!

[lifefeedsonlifefeeds]

You don;t listen or watch the news?? I saw it as clear as day a around 5:33pm, driving on 50th ST south fromt the Henday...it was the most bad ass thing ever!!

[TheMysteryWaffle]

dude holy crap i missed it. You could see it from Henday?

[BALLlSLlFE]

ths one was in 1972, I saw the one on thursday too though

[aaronsawhale]

Yeahhh!!!!! CREEPPYY!!

[catholicpeter]

Best i ever saw was about 3 years ago, toward the southeast of edmonton. the color was the sweetest green i ever seen

[BlindAsFcuk1]

soo any idea where it landed?

[tyuio64]

Can't wait till 2012, there will be lots of them to watch :)

[aaronsawhale]

Yeah, sure bud. Because youtube said 2012 is doomsaday so we all have to belive it. And the ancient whatevers calender ends, well, ours ends in december!! So doomsaday must be in december!! :O:O

[IssiT24]

fake!

[LunaofChaos]

Not fake at all moron everybody saw it in alberta and even montana ok!!!

[rseradicatex]

There was a Meteor above Alberta and Saskatchewan, around 5:30 pm :D

November 20th 2008

[nintendo0master]

i saw that!!!!!

[aaronsawhale]

There was!! But I live in Calgary, and was outisde and didn't see anything!! I wish I did..

[cintraworld]

Is Alberta meteorite magnet??? I also witnessed the one tonight (West of St. Paul) It terrifying and awesome, but i still needed ckean underwear when it was over!!!!

[nintendo0master]

im in bonnyville an i was sitting on the computer and this thing fell from the sky i when out side i was so freaked out!!!

[Guitarsinger27]

Same here it happend today november 20th 2008 it happend here in saskatchewan it hit dillon beside the river, really bright blue light we saw in the sky then we saw it landed it was pretty crazy and deadly!!

[meakah2]

I saw the one tonight from within Edmonton. Wow!! I was in the park in the darkness and it lit up the entire field!! Insane!

[matzner44]

I saw the one that just happened. I live in saskatoon and it was fricken bright as shit. It was awesome

[s4spencer]

just happened again, 2008! damnit, was vacuuming floors a the time >= (

[Violonista2004]

Goku!

[2yungtone2]

LOL

[tomdabom713]

thats awesome man

[mariolover2008]

i read about that meteorite in a book!

[JensGall02]

u read?

[mariolover2008]

Of course I read.

[Warfighter687]

Is that a string?

[bonzie88]

I hope we get one in the atlantic,Somee big waves to surf then LOL

[super6961]

we will all be dead bro haha

[Curien247]

we need meteor defence!!

[Lycanthr0py]

Well we have SpaceGuard, but it doesn't detect meteorites smaller than 1km though.

[j40505]

did u hear anything after seeing the meteor, and if so how long after seeing it did u hear anything? (as in any strong sounds of wind flames etc..)

[richintalent]

Can you imageine the devastation if that thing had stayed in one peice and hit the ground? *shudders*

[ecitsujwon]

what? there'd be moderately sized hole inconveniently place somewhere up north

[CatapultYourMom]

I vote for Quebec.

[ecitsujwon]

i saw it too. I was working on a western farm-it passed right over to the east of us. Scared the crap out of us because we had no idea what it was. Thought it was a missle or rocketship gone wrong. It was at 1ish pm on August 10, 1972. It didnt make a sound. of course it was moving at mach gazzillon, and I remember reading it was either 60 or 80 miles up, so whether there's sonic booms up there in that thin air is unknown to me.

[BakanaNekoMitsumi]

Goku? *cries*

[barbariok]

ITS GOKU ON HIS NIMBUS CLOUD!!!!!!

[briedis147]

HAHA thats right xD

[youtubesneak]

Thanks for uploading this. I've been looking for more footage of this since I saw the Linda Baker footage of it over Grand Teton - see /watch?v=wIv7wL9nWMQ .

I remember seeing this on American TV at the time. Do you know of any more coverage? BTW the experts reckon it was around 5 metres diameter.

[yodez3]

umm, it's not a meteorite unless it hits the ground. This was a meteor grazing the atmosphere.

[mineguy101]

thanks, you are corect yodez, I guess the commentator got excited seeing the meteor.

Cheers

[Cijevschi]

not bad

[blobrana]

nice