# Meteor strike in Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783 "2008-11-21T04:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/1 "2008-11-21T04:17:56Z")
This just in. A large meteor hit Western Canada and was captured on video [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/alta\_fireball\_081120/20081120?hub=TopStories](http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/alta_fireball_081120/20081120?hub=TopStories) I, for one, welcome our alien overlords. There, I said it so it is out of the way šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/2 "2008-11-21T04:31:43Z")
Oh, the overlords are finally here? Thatā€™s great newsā€¦I was hoping theyā€™d show up in my lifetime! ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/3 "2008-11-21T04:33:16Z")
I saw that! I had just come in from having a smoke and I saw this big flash. I didnā€™t know what the hell it was! None of my neighbours saw it though. The dogs barked like crazy. Whatever the hell it is, it was HUGE! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/4 "2008-11-21T04:40:06Z")
Figures, the overlords come on the day I cut off the tip of my thumb at work. Now Iā€™ll probably be labeled a defect and moved to their ā€œHappy Time Fun Campsā€ working 18 hours in the mines, instead of being forced into endless sex w/ supermodels to advance our species. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/5 "2008-11-21T04:44:11Z")
Wow! Have they found it yet? And are there any mysterious glowing substances oozing from the cracked remains of the object, followed by screams and missing high-school students? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/6 "2008-11-21T05:42:53Z")
Yet another example of Canadaā€™s lax immigration policies putting North America at risk. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/7 "2008-11-21T05:46:50Z")
When the aliens travel south across the border and conquer America, I bet we get blamed. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/8 "2008-11-21T06:22:23Z")
Canada deserves the wrath of heaven. ā€¦I keed, I keed. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/9 "2008-11-21T07:05:47Z")
Damn! Why wasnā€™t I looking up at the sky then? Iā€™m always looking up at the sky! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/10 "2008-11-21T07:09:25Z")
Well, in the link I posted above, you can watch videos of the impact. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/11 "2008-11-21T07:19:55Z")
Has anyone seen Stephen King? Do we know that he _hasnā€™t_ stuck his fingers in the goo oozing from the meteorite yet? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/12 "2008-11-21T08:17:01Z")
Thereā€™s a video of it from a police carā€™s dashboard camera on [Youtube](http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw). ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/13 "2008-11-21T08:39:55Z")
> [@detop](#): > > This just in. A large meteor hit Western Canada and was captured on video [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/alta\_fireball\_081120/20081120?hub=TopStories](http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/alta_fireball_081120/20081120?hub=TopStories) > > I, for one, welcome our alien overlords. There, I said it so it is out of the way šŸ˜ƒ Since it was a luminous object , I wonder if Norad was able to track it to the point of impact. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/14 "2008-11-21T09:10:29Z")
There was a [similar case](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0BifYPQQJE&feature=related) in Washington State a couple of years agoā€“lot of superfluous footage, but you can skip ahead to about 1:45 to see the meteor impact. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/15 "2008-11-21T11:34:12Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > There was a [similar case](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0BifYPQQJE&feature=related) in Washington State a couple of years agoā€“lot of superfluous footage, but you can skip ahead to about 1:45 to see the meteor impact. I wondered what had happened to those two. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/16 "2008-11-21T13:15:58Z")
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to oneā€¦ but still they come. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/17 "2008-11-21T13:19:25Z")
Man, Iā€™ve always wanted to see that. Iā€™ve seen meteors in the sky, but never a strike. Canā€™t wait to get home and watch the video. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/18 "2008-11-21T13:33:59Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Has anyone seen Stephen King? Do we know that he _hasnā€™t_ stuck his fingers in the goo oozing from the meteorite yet? heh .. " mee-tee-ore shit!" ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/19 "2008-11-21T13:44:25Z")
ā€œKlaatu barada nikto, eh?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783/20 "2008-11-21T15:20:49Z")
> [@detop](#): > > I, for one, welcome our alien overlords. There, I said it so it is out of the way šŸ˜ƒ Jim, host of the Eyeopener on CBC, said this this morning. Well, he said ā€œI for one welcome out meteorite overlordsā€ but close enough. šŸ˜› > [@featherlou](#): > > Damn! Why wasnā€™t I looking up at the sky then? Iā€™m always looking up at the sky! I was inside, because I was stuck on Glenmore so I decided to run a non-essential errand as it took me away from the gong show last night until it cleared up. Otherwise I may have seen it.. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-strike-in-canada/473783.md?page=2)