VIDEO: Meteor confirmed in Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley incident
VIDEO: Meteor confirmed in Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley incident
Published 3:00 pm Monday, March 16, 2026
It was a meteor concerning the measurement of a giant seaside ball, transferring at near 98 occasions the pace of sound.
That’s in response to knowledge launched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in regards to the fireball that lit up the sky and shook the bottom in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley on March 3.
Data from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) 18 satellite tv for pc reveals the meteor turned seen 58 miles (98 km) over Coquitlam, transferring “a bit east of north” at 75,000 miles per hour (33 km per second), or Mach 97.74.
Energy measured is estimated in the order of 10 tons of TNT, suggesting that the thing producing the fireball weighed about 166 kilos (75 kg) and had a diameter of 15 inches (38 cm), roughly the dimensions of a big seaside ball.
It traveled 44 miles (71 km) by way of the higher ambiance earlier than disintegrating at an altitude of 41 miles (65 km) above Greenmantle Mountain in the Misty Icefields space close to Garibaldi Park, about 80-90 kilometers north-northwest of Langley.
Bright lights flashed then there was a increase that rattled components of the Lower Mainland Tuesday evening. Initially hypothesis is a meteor. pic.twitter.com/NVQPiE82D1
— Langley Advance Times (@LangleyTimes) March 4, 2026
As nicely because the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland areas, sightings have been reported from as distant as Comox on Vancouver Island and Clinton in Washington State, simply north of Seattle.
Witnesses described seeing two flashes of sunshine adopted by a delayed sonic increase, loud sufficient to shake the bottom and trigger the Earthquakes Canada seismograph in Haney to spike shortly after 9 p.m.
On Facebook, there have been sightings reported in Langley, Surrey and North Delta. Aldergrove resident Jessika Houston described how “my house trembled and a boom went off so loud that I heard it inside my house and noticed the time.”
In on-line stories posted by the American Meteor Society (AMS)a non-profit scientific group for newbie and skilled astronomers, Comox resident Jim. S referred to as it “larger, brighter and much closer than any meteor I have ever observed.”
BC resident Lee-Ann W., a longtime star gazer and meteor bathe watcher, described it as “the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in the night sky.”
Port Coquitlam resident Simon Hardy-Francis, who posted a video to the AMS web site, reported seeing flashes of sunshine, then listening to a loud increase three minutes later, with native seismographs reacting “at exactly 9:12.”
In Merritt, Candice W. enthused it was “incredible and felt like such a once in a lifetime experience and I’ll never forget it!”
Another Merritt resident, Ryan T. referred to as it “super cool! [The] “second time I’ve seen a decent-sized green meteor burning across the sky.”
