Bright fireball meteor lights up Vancouver sky, scientists confirm

Just after midnight on a Wednesday in late April, the skies above Greater Vancouver became briefly, brilliantly alive — a fireball meteor, brighter than Venus, tore through the upper atmosphere and was witnessed by hundreds across the Pacific Northwest. Scientists at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre confirmed the event as part of a recurring seasonal phenomenon, when Earth's orbit carries it through denser clouds of cosmic debris, increasing the likelihood of such luminous encounters by as much as a third. It is a quiet reminder that the boundary between the cosmos and our daily lives is thinne