Nov 24 2008PEEEW!: Meteor Blasts Over Canada
A brilliant meteor shone its alien light over Alberta and Saskatchewan at approximately 5:30 p.m. last Thursday.
[The meteor] likely weighed between one and 10 tons and shone brightly enough to be seen over an area 700 km (435 miles) wide.
"It was somewhere between the size of a chair to the size of a desk," said Alan Hildebrand, a planetary scientist at the University of Calgary and a coordinator of a fireball reporting service.
Well damn, you think there were any aliens aboard that mother? I dunno, but rest assured I'll be sleeping underwearless tonight to find out. Report tomorrow.
UPDATE: We aren't alone. Wait a minute -- this is just a broken television antennae!
Meteor lights up skies over Western Canada [yahoonews]
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Reader Comments
1. Ginormagantuan - November 24, 2008 9:30 AM
Fo' shizzle?
2. Ginormagantuan - November 24, 2008 9:31 AM
hmmm....... this shit might be carriying the CHIMERA VIRUS!!!!!11one SOMEONE CALL NATHAN HALE!!!!!!!!
3. Alucarda - November 24, 2008 9:43 AM
Obviously fake, there arent even any shadows....Btw, what's with this washington thing as a background?
4. JEWISHNAZI - November 24, 2008 9:46 AM
yeah obviously fake, shadows are all wrong, it's obviously just a couch some astronauts dumped off the spacestation after someone got some WEAKSAUCE all over it.
5. pojojuniper - November 24, 2008 10:01 AM
Weighs somewhere between 1 and 10 tons? That's the difference between "possibly harboring alien microbes" to "the whole f'ing mothership."
Also this reminds me of that time I was abducted by aliens, and they made me wear a device that counted every bite I took, then they forced me to make fiber-optic wallpaper in an apartment filled with crystals, and then before they let me go (after the "probing") they smashed a giant rock down into the earth and were like, "Pew, pew, take that Will Smith and all your stupid alien movies!"
6. pojojuniper - November 24, 2008 10:04 AM
(Of course, that last comment was FROM THE ALIENS, not me because I totally like Will Smith and even watched Hancock.)
7. Zabuza Arknolis - November 24, 2008 10:16 AM
This might be one of the Autobots crashing into earth in hopes of preventing destruction and Decipticon domination among earthlings.
Hmmm... Me thinks...
Ah! This is just another viral ad for TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE NERDS!
Wait... What? Revenge of the [what]?! Oh. Ok.
My agent said, it's not "of the nerds" Pardon my mistakes. It's TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.
Well, if I am to judge, the name is gayer than Rick Astley.
Good Luck on that MICHAEL BAY!
8. Virtual Web Symphony - November 24, 2008 10:17 AM
Appears fake.
9. Stephen Hawkins - November 24, 2008 10:22 AM
Yeah Will Smiths ok, Pursuit of happiness is particularly good I think.
10. Adra - November 24, 2008 10:31 AM
Odd how nothing new has been said about the impact. Obviously they are hiding something, and by they i mean The Man. Hes always hiding things from us you know.
I like how its described as "somewhere between the size of a chair to the size of a desk." What is the IKEA space station falling apart again? Maybe because not enough screws where included with it....
Also how many chairs do you know between 1 and 10 ton? Seriously. We including super dense core of the earth chairs in this description? How many of them do you think we have knocking about? 18....19 at a stretch.
Gx
11. Daisy - November 24, 2008 10:34 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is like the scene from the movie Never Back Down when Max buys Baja a telescope so she can see Uranus a little more clearly, but one evening while chatting in a wheel of fortune chatroom & eating some bacon flavored ice cream from Del Taco she spots a giant cardboard box filled with cocaine laced star wars puppets flying from the roof of a hentai lamborghini that was chasing a base jumper for fornicating a jar of spaghetti sauce.
12. Harry Ballzonya - November 24, 2008 10:37 AM
Not fake i live in Saskatchewan and i saw it from my apartment while eating a roast beef sandwich. Best sandwich i ever had.
13. Zabuza Arknolis - November 24, 2008 10:40 AM
can anyone agree with @7,( that's me)?
I was right about that "Guitard Hero" viral video. I'm speculating this one as another viral stunt from Film execs.
BTW, viral ad stunts will someday fade into abyss. It's just that no one has ever noticed it yet. But I do. I gotta admit; it's very amusing!
People are so naive. I'm just glad people like me are smart enough. Kinda like @8, @4, and @3.
14. Jab - November 24, 2008 10:45 AM
Wow, I didn't know this site was popular enough to have those shitty overbearing myspace type ads.
15. Believer - November 24, 2008 10:55 AM
Ain't nature some shit?
16. Thumperchica - November 24, 2008 11:03 AM
hrm... FAKE!>!>!>!>!?
17. Georgethefirst - November 24, 2008 11:13 AM
Good thing theres nothing in Saskatchewan or someone might have gotten hurt...
18. Francis Gerard - November 24, 2008 11:22 AM
Where the hell is Saskachewan?
I've heard of Sheboygen, Wisconsin; but not Saskatchewan.
19. Daisy (the real one) - November 24, 2008 11:25 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This is a lot like the scene at the very end of the movie Never Back down where Max and Baja snorted some space coke and flew up into the clouds.
20. Douchie Mc Bagman - November 24, 2008 11:32 AM
@10 - the delivery chargee for the super dense core of the earth chairs would be a killer - and how much would you tip the delivery guy?
21. Moose Knuckle - November 24, 2008 11:50 AM
You shit heads. This isn't fake. Check cbc.ca or any other Canadian news site before spouting off "fake" and looking not only retarded, but comparable to Daisy.
Way to go Daisy f*** faces!
22. Yo Poleo - November 24, 2008 12:01 PM
It was just the crap from the ISS
23. A. - November 24, 2008 12:05 PM
@ 18: I sincerely hope you're kidding and you're aware that Saskatchewan is a province in Canada.
Also, not fake, I live in Saskatchewan and witnessed it myself.
24. PLEEEZE! - November 24, 2008 12:09 PM
AAAAHHHHHAHAHA! I like the fox news version: A giant firecracker returning to earth. That's much more believable than a meteor (now metiorite). And yes, what about the impact site. No news is BAD news. Very BAAAAD news! Maybe the firecracker had aiens aboard her? Personally I think it's Al-kaida since they can't get anywhere near the U.S.. Errant Scud missile maybe? Pirates from India? God trying to tell us something? oops...sorry, I mean Allah trying to tell us something (must be PC here, eh, or else suffer the thrashings of all of geekdom).
25. Tim - November 24, 2008 12:56 PM
I like how Daisy is always claiming fake - yet the only fake thing is her t***. GG bitch
26. Tim - November 24, 2008 12:57 PM
@23 yeah people who live in the States dont know about your shitty "provinces" we don't care about your neighborhoods.
27. Moose Knuckle - November 24, 2008 1:50 PM
Wow, Americans really ARE uneducated, retarded, f***twats.
28. Elmo - November 24, 2008 1:59 PM
OMFG it happend in the same place like FIVE TIMES oh shit
... no, wait. the video's on repeat.
29. moi - November 24, 2008 2:14 PM
@26, go back to butt f***ing a monkey while you wait your turn to f*** mommy, guess yo brotha got to it b4 you, booo hoo mutherf***er
30. Adra - November 24, 2008 2:16 PM
Im just waiting for the one thats gonna bring back the dinosaurs.
Gx
31. riz - November 24, 2008 3:11 PM
fake or not that shit is COOL
32. PLEEEZE! - November 24, 2008 3:54 PM
@assuminggeekologieposters
Our less educated companion @ 18, a Mr. Francis Gerard, by name sounds more french than american. We should assume that he is from canada and has blocked too many slap shots with his skull, instead of blaming the obvious moronic default "america". As for @26...simply retarded...my personal diagnosis. Well, that may be too harsh. Maybe, shaken as a baby by his au pair. Poor sod!
33. A hope of a better future - November 24, 2008 4:27 PM
@27 Listen, f***face! America is a country full of brilliant people. Even though #18 is being ignorant and retarded as f***, doesn't mean all Americans are uneducated. There's a big generality when you say AMERICANS. And where the f*** are you from? How you come your country didn't invent the internet? If it wasn't for the world wide web, you wouldn't be such a troll-f***ed dimwit posting senseless f***ed up shit on this site.
I don't care if you have a Master's degree in Lobotomy or Rocket Science, it doesn't make YOU any better than the rest of humanity, or AMERICANS for that matter.
F*** your country and f*** your people.
34. canadian - November 24, 2008 4:35 PM
This is absolutely real...i live in edmonton(alberta) and saw it. Here is another video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSL3b6bCR7s
35. canadian - November 24, 2008 4:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUucUacfJzA&NR=1
36. My Name is Wepeel - November 24, 2008 4:39 PM
CANADA SUCKS!!!
37. Stephen Hawkins - November 24, 2008 5:04 PM
You are all missing what is really important here. What do you think of Will Smith?
38. Moose Knuckle - November 24, 2008 5:09 PM
LOL @ 33.
Thanks for proving my point you retarded f***twat.
39. A hope of a better future - November 24, 2008 5:57 PM
@38
Like you're not a retard yourself. NO one cares if I'm retarded. I might just be one of those people who f***s for a living but it doesn't define America as a whole.
YOU JUST F***ING SUCK!
40. Spam Artist - November 24, 2008 7:07 PM
Daisy (The Fake one?) # 11 is very funny, her jokes are all right.
She reminds me of the movie Tender Dracula where one over dubbed french man tells another over dubbed french man to wet his throat. Later they all die while having an orgy in a burning chateux.
41. Lindsay - November 24, 2008 7:52 PM
I just saw this on the news a little while ago o.O
Maybe when they find something we'll know if it's fake or not =) looks pretty real to me, but it's pretty odd how it suddenly gets brighter when it's farther away from the car. (And it seems a little weird even for meteors to be as bright as the sun?)
I heard a series of sort of firework noises earlier just a bit before that story came on the news, either there were fireworks going off near my house in late november, (and I looked out of all of my house's upstairs windows and saw nothing, although the places across the body of water from my house are impossible to see because of the trees blocking it) or it was the meteor landing. *shrug* I mean, I honestly highly doubt that's what it was but you never know ^_^
42. Grace - November 24, 2008 8:40 PM
This is not fake - I live in New England and happen to be outside star grazing and saw this cover over into the atmosphere - it's real
43. Moose Knuckle - November 24, 2008 8:41 PM
It's f***ing real you f***ing morons. Look at some f***ing canadian news sites instead of typing a novel on how you wonder if it's real or not. Jesus christ you're f***ing stupid.
@39 Thanks again you f***ing dickface. You're a real smart piece of shit aren't you?
44. Barry (O) - November 24, 2008 10:12 PM
HELLA YEAH THE TRANSFORMERS ARE HERE!!!
45. Mike Hawk - November 24, 2008 10:30 PM
Move over Bacon, I've got something Meteor.
46. lunchboxx - November 24, 2008 10:45 PM
god i hate how us americans have sunk so low to proclaim things fake.
thank god i am not that type of person.
yeah thats a real meteor. not a fake.
god i hate my retarded american brothers.
i wish i lived in canada. v_v
47. tc - November 25, 2008 12:22 AM
Daisy, you are a worthless pile of drizzle from a diseased tramp's cock. And a cunt.
I am going to find out your IP address from geek, then hack your ISP to find out your home address.
You will then be made to eat your keyboard, my faeces, and a some permanent sleeping pills.
48. guate6 - November 25, 2008 12:25 AM
video not working: Here's a couple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAGHkEvkDU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dan3wM3rns
49. JEWISHNAZI - November 25, 2008 2:18 AM
#47 Yeah I'm sure Daisy will love eating "faeces" thank god you are not making her eat feces, that would be nasty.
50. tc - November 25, 2008 4:12 AM
#49 , you are a worthless pile of drizzle from a diseased tramp's cock. And a cunt.
Check out my spelling, you smart-arse f***er, and I think you will find it is a perfectly valid and more commonly used alternative to the less commonly used feces.
**********************EAT MY SHIT**********************
Consider yourself pwned
51. Ginormagantuan - November 25, 2008 5:27 AM
HAHAHAHA! where is it more "common" at? you f***face! Not around here! you must be one of them Canadians. Oh sorry i guess you are one of them f***wads that spells colors "lolours" and "olde" instead of old. Then again Canadians are the only f***tards stupid enough to cell themselfs "Canadians". it's like germans calling themselves "germanians" you know..... like if I'm from Alaska I am Alaskan, not f***ing alaskian. you kow? who f***ing cares about Canada anyways. that worthless piece of shit can get hit by 100 meteors over the next month and people sill would not give a f***! only thing you f***ers are good at is making maple syrup.
52. Ginormagantuan - November 25, 2008 5:29 AM
colours*
SHIT I PWNED MYSELF!!!!111one
53. Hannukah Montana - November 25, 2008 8:13 AM
@51
Nah, maple syrup aren't even made in Canada. Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth are made in Vermont. I don't even know how their Maple Syrup tastes like(skeet). America won't even think about getting Canada's maple syrup because when we run out of syrup, we get them from China. Yeah, we'll be eating our pancakes with ducksauce.
LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIIIIIIIIITCHEEEEEEEZZZZZ!
WE GOT A BLACK GANGSTA PRESIDENT!!! SUCK ON THAT GERMANY, CANADA, FRANCE, CUBA, LONDON AND ALL OTHER PUSSY COUNTRIES!
WE OWN YA ASS NOW!!!
54. homo erectus - November 25, 2008 8:13 AM
@51
cell themselfs
you kow?
people sill
I am surprised that you managed to spell your name consistently.
55. P05TMAN - November 25, 2008 8:17 AM
@51
Don't invade us when you run low on maple syrup.
56. Ginormagantuan - November 25, 2008 8:44 AM
D@YYum! HOMO-ERECTUS can f***ing spell! GIVE THIS MAN A F***ING COOKIE ALREADY! (form that mansauce recipee book) woopty f***ing-do! asshole......... like HANUKAH MONTANA SAID
"LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIIIIIIIIITCHEEEEEEEZZZZZ!
WE GOT A BLACK GANGSTA PRESIDENT!!! SUCK ON THAT GERMANY, CANADA, FRANCE, CUBA, LONDON AND ALL OTHER PUSSY COUNTRIES!
WE OWN YA ASS NOW!!!"
MHF***AZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!! what he said ^^^^^^^^
57. Ginormagantuan - November 25, 2008 8:54 AM
NEEEEYUKUHHH!!!!!! duck sawce on tham pankaeks sound like the shit son!
nahhhmeen! them shits be loaded with MSG's n' shit FO-SHO!!!!
SHEEET!!!!!!
SKEET SKEET MUH-F***AZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!
yeh! Daisy, beetch get on my level and bring that slutty white booty of your over here! yeah... uh huh, wait, hold on... yeah smoking girl was sucking it better, AHHHHH THAT'S THA JOINT RIGHT THERE!!!! YEH GIRL you know them white beoeothces be doing it duurty like that, hmm yeah, oh daisy!!!!!!!!! let's make some man made oysters girl you now!!!!!!! (puts in R-kelly CD)
WOOOOOOO!!!!!!! girl! you know you be doing that dirty booty thang yeah girl hmMM!!!!! right there in that tight little hmm hmm hmm booty hole baby yeh!!!!!
58. Ginormagantuan - November 25, 2008 9:35 AM
WTF^^^^^???????^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it's not f***ing morning time! i live in the future! it's f***ing 3:30 p.m. and I'm going f***ing home dammitt!
TIRED OF IMPERSONATORS, DAISY, AND THIS GOD-DAMN SNAKES ON THIS DAMN PLANE!
59. Hannukah Montana - November 25, 2008 9:50 AM
@58 LOL
This shit is gangsta son! We run dis shit! We on top of the world.
America represent!
60. orangesrhyme - November 25, 2008 1:08 PM
@12:
Lol! You're all like, screw the meteor, that sammich was friggin' amazing!
61. dangerdames@gmail.com - November 25, 2008 3:13 PM
Gentlemen, please. Relax.
62. tc - November 25, 2008 3:17 PM
#51 , you are a worthless pile of drizzle from a diseased tramp's cock. And a cunt.
Not Canadian. English. As in from England - the place where the language you try (and fail) to use comes from.
63. Audrey - November 25, 2008 9:58 PM
"It's obviously fake."
And you're obviously a dipshit.
It's real.
64. Blopit - November 25, 2008 10:44 PM
@45
dont we all CANADA is f***ing amazing! its just like the states except its colder, less fat people and girls are easier to ra.......its and canada has mooses, more islands, and toronto! why cant americans and canadians get along?
65. Stacy - November 26, 2008 1:23 AM
It's fake, because Saskatchewan isn't really a place.
Dumbasses.
If this is a stunt, it's one helluva expensive one, considering all the Canadians who saw it.
(Not like Canadians can understand what happens right in front of them.)
66. Ginormagantuan - November 26, 2008 2:26 AM
64...... agreed. i went to Canada whenever I got the chance to because of the easy slu..... I maen fine young women willing to show me my way back to my hotel room. And I thought picking up fat depressed chicks in seattle was easy. Sheeeeeet! Vancouver Canada! is like f***ing heaven if you want to get some of that pootang! shit be crawlen with them foreign pussy, matter fo fact all the chicks I got with there were not even Canadian, they were all like German and Russian and Brazilian and shit....... no canadians though.
67. Lisa - November 26, 2008 4:46 PM
*ahem* Anyway, scientists are now saying the meteor weighs closer to ten tons than one, and that it likely fell around the Manitou Lake region of Saskatchewan, with fragments scattered across an area of up to 24 square kilometres.
One of many reasons I love living in Canada? If a meteorite lands on your property, YOU GET TO KEEP IT! Of course, in order for a meteorite to land on my "property", it would have to crash through the roof of my apartment, yet be going slow enough not to crash through the floor. Oh well, a girl can dream.
68. Denise - November 26, 2008 6:42 PM
So what's the purpose of the swearing to make an intelligent point? I am surprised that it's used because without the swearing, the comments would be worth reading.
69. Michelle - November 26, 2008 9:23 PM
I hate to break the news to you people....but this was NOT FAKE....saw with my own eyes, it was scary....it was actually an asteroid that broke up now. I live within the area that the search is on....trust me, it's very real. To make things even stranger; one has been reported over British Columbia now as well. It looks fake because it's rare that asteroids, meteors, etc. of this size enter the atmosphere.......
70. Mike Bastard - November 27, 2008 3:10 AM
'Antenna'. 'Antennae' is plural.
If you're thinking 'ooh but a TV antennae [sic] has TWO arms LOL' then I have some prime swampland you will just *love*
71. Mike Bastard - November 27, 2008 3:13 AM
Also:
Dear 'Michelle',
You did not see an asteroid. You saw a meteor. It had been an asteroid, yes, but you could not see it then. It no doubt became a meteorite, but you did not see it /then/, either.
72. Michelle - November 27, 2008 11:49 AM
Dear Mike Bastard, I WAS NOT CLAIMING I SAW THE ASTEROID!!! Scientists are now reporting that it was a chunk of asteroid...what I saw was the METEOR!!! Please don't tell me what I did or didn't see.
AS QUOTED BY CTV NEWS:
10-tonne asteroid lit up Prairie skies: Univ. of Calgary
Updated Tue. Nov. 25 2008 8:09 PM ET
CTV.ca News
A fireball that streamed across the skies over Alberta and Saskatchewan last week was a 10-tonne asteroid, according to a researcher at the University of Calgary.
Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the university's Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, said the rock would have been the size of a desk as it entered the atmosphere, before breaking up into meteorites.
He has mapped out a region in western Saskatchewan where he believes the surviving fragments can be found.
"We are now starting to reasonably constrain where the meteorites will have fallen," Hildebrand said in a press release issued by the university Tuesday.
"Many witnesses reported seeing a cluster of red fragments continuing downwards in the sky after the fireball exploded. These represent the rocks slowing down that will eventually fall to the ground as meteorites."
The buzz surrounding the landing site has some nearby residents curious about where the space rocks will be found. Debbie Waddell, who lives in Edgerton, Alta., said she thinks locals will beat the meteorite hunters to find the ultimate prize.
"If anybody ever finds anything it'll be a deer hunter or someone that finds it," she told CTV News.
It's believed the asteroid entered the atmosphere at about 14 kilometres per second -- a relatively slow speed, which means meteorites larger than 50 grams could have survived the trip to solid ground.
Most asteroids enter the atmosphere at around 20 km/s.
On Nov. 20, witnesses in Alberta and Saskatchewan reported seeing a bright light streak past them overhead. Some sent videos of the sighting to CTV's MyNews.
"The public response to this fireball has been the largest that we have ever had in Canada," said Hildebrand.
He urged witnesses who recorded the event to save a copy and contact him through the university.
Kevin Proctor said he has already told Hildebrand about his experience seeing the fireball.
"I watched it go to the southwest and before I lost sight of it over the horizon it burned out," he told CTV News. "For probably about a minute afterwards you could hear a low rumbling sound like thunder."
73. Donnie Hoyle - November 27, 2008 3:59 PM
It's actually Fake, I made this in photoshop.
74. Tenchi059 - November 28, 2008 7:09 AM
@33 The Internet is in fact an Italian invention, developed in America. Do a little research and find it out by yourself.
It had already happened to the phone, the web it's just the modern version of that story.
75. HG - November 28, 2008 6:31 PM
No matter where it was invented, I think we can agree that all of you arguing over whose country is better have no real knowledge of how a government or an economy works. There's not really such a thing as a "better" one, only better at the moment.
Besides, it's all one world people, what the f***. F***.
Also, this isn't actually video footage of a meteor. It's footage of my birth, right before I came to America because I'm slowly making my way to Antarctica.
76. devin - December 2, 2008 2:10 AM
You guys are stupid this thing is real i f***ing saw it when it happened.
haha wow ppl
77. Dani - December 3, 2008 12:38 PM
@33:
Why would you have a degree in lobotomy? It's a procedure. Major indignance fail, dude, at least tell someone your people aren't stupid properly.
78. valerie - December 3, 2008 8:34 PM
ur stupid lozers
79. Philip Anderson - December 4, 2008 4:20 AM
Wow! So many idiots who would believe this was fake, considering it was ONLY ON THE NEWS! Duh! But what strikes me odd is this... I live in California. I was outside when I saw a large light streaking down out of the sky. I read, two days later, about the meteor in Canada. They said that "it could have broken up into possibly thousands of pieces" as it entered Earth's atmosphere. OK. Sure. Then it makes sense that I saw one of them. What gets me is that NO ONE talked about it. In the S.F. Bay Area, is it possible that I was the only person who saw it land? It wasn't even on the news. Very odd.
80. jenn - December 8, 2008 11:35 AM
they found that rock. not fake. the guy who owns the property now owns it. they have to pay him if they want it.. that would be sweet million dollar rocks falling out of the sky..lol
81. john Pocock - December 8, 2008 12:51 PM
Meteor lands in Paradise:
The song "Frozen Pond in Paradise" by Harper John has taken on brand new skates. It started out as an entry in the CBC Ice Hockey Anthem Song Contest ...and can be heard @
http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/322519?sort=hits+DESC+DESC+DESC+DESC+DESC+DESC+DESC&filetype=2%2C3&moderationstatus=1&offset=10094
In the contest the song was billed as "a slapshot on a frozen pond of outerworldly Miltonian dreams." So what's a metaphysical vision of poet John Milton to do with a meteor landing in Gretskyland you many well ask? Well, for starters, Milton was a bit of a Meteor buff. In Paradise Lost, for example, the Imperial Ensign "shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."
But there's more, much more, coded into the words of Harper's song:
Like a smooth stone skimming on the ice,
On a frozen pond down in Paradise.
Slap my puck , slap it twice,
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot my ice.
Like a Gretsky, on a jet-ski,
So quick, so fast.
Shoot that puck, shoot it fast,
Score first baby , score last.
Did you see the picture of the first sighting of the meteor fragments ... a "smooth stone" resting on a frozen pond "in the picturesque valley" near paradise Lloydminster? That wonderful snapshot of student Ellen Milley gazing in awe at the heaven sent "puck" ... Shoot that puck, shoot it fast, Score first baby ....
She and meteorite expert Alan Hildebrand had at first stumbled on an object that turned out to be a glittering "leaf", the Imperial Ensign of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team no less, shining "like a meteor streaming to the wind" as Milton would have it.
The wayward cosmic treasure belongs to rancher Ian Mitchell, owner of the pond, but where was he when the sacred stone landed? At an ice hockey game, of course!
82. AIrkeeper - December 10, 2008 2:56 AM
@45. Sublime.
83. madison - December 11, 2008 2:23 AM
comment to everyone who says it's fake:
I live where it happened and i saw it.
like shit. i screamed and thought it was an atomic bomb
true story.
84. Chesha - September 16, 2009 5:13 PM
What the hell? "It's fake" isn't abusive, what sparked all of you into being jerks? Get over it? Americans are admittedly NOT taught about their neighbors, unlike other nations, and we should be, true. I'd never heard of it before either and it's not because I'm an 'idiot American'.
Cripes the lot of you need to chill out.
Very cool video, btw, GW ♥