took to social media to report seeing a giant fireball illuminate the night sky late Monday, and the RCMP told media it received dozens of calls about what seemed to be the same event. Kevin Skrepnek, chief fire information officer for B.C., tweeted that he was on a patio in Nelson when "the entire sky lit up. Well, that was different: while sitting on a patio in #NelsonBC the entire sky lit up and a meteorite came down. "Then, to the east, I saw a reddish fireball streak and break up," he said in a brief statement posted on Twitter. Skrepnek added that the wildfire smoke still sitting over large swaths of Alberta and B.C.

Source: CBC News September 05, 2017 09:56 UTC