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Massive Fireball Spotted Over Alberta And Saskatchewan

Hundreds of people in Western Canada Thursday night reported seeing a flaming object streak across the sky, variously describing it as green, yellow, purple and blue, brighter than a lightening strike and as loud as fireworks.

But before you get your UFO theories in order, know that aviation and astronomy experts say it was most likely a meteorite--though they can't say it was for certain. Says a professor at the University of Alberta:

What we probably saw was a fireball, which is the result of a rock coming into the atmosphere. The big question now is whether or not anything hit the ground.

While you might think a huge fireball would be easily tracked to its landing place, meteorites actually stop burning in the last few moments of their falls. That makes tracking the space rocks--if they don't burn up completely in the atmosphere--incredibly difficult: Fewer than 50 have ever been found in Canada.

Related Stories:
· Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee to the Canadian Space Agency [Official Site]
· Massive Fireball Lights up Night Skies in Alberta, Saskatchewan [Calgary Herald]
· ET Travel: Gillian Anderson Let Down Her Guard [Jaunted]

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