A fireball streaking to the east over central Alberta around 5:30 Thursday afternoon appeared to be a lot closer then it really was.
Witnesses feel it impacted here in our province, but many in Saskatchewan, even Manitoba, are reportedly saying the same.

Doug Hube is a former professor with the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta.
He tells iNews880 looks can be deceiving when you're watching an apparent falling meteor.
"They tend to begin to glow when their about 70 kilometres above the earth surface and the light tends to go out around 20 kilometres above the earth's surface...so if somebody sees it's apparently disappearing behind a garage it's definitely not fallen behind a garage, it's probably still a few hundred kilometres away."

Hube says video and eyewitness evidence will now be gathered to help determine the object's exact trajectory and impact site.
He says there's no risk of contamination, but handling a meteor is best left to the experts.
"What we really want is to find the meteorite because studying meteorites tells us something about the composition and physical processes, physical structures, in the space between planets." (TD)