The Cranbrook College of the Rockies meteor camera tracked last night’s fireball high over Nelson and Kootenay Lake. It lasted for about 10 seconds, from 5:11:26 until 5:11:37 Universal Time.

For a brightness comparison, note the full Moon in the lower left part of the video is totally out-shown by the fireball when it flares. There is no sign of the fireball breaking up and exploding.

The American Meteor Society estimates it terminated over Meadow Creek, which is 30 km north of Kaslo along Kootenay Lake, or about 70 km north of Nelson.
The AMS has received over 90 reports so far about of a fireball event seen above British Columbia on September 4, around 10:14 p.m. PDT (September 5, 05:14 Universal Time).

The fireball was seen primarily from British Columbia but was also seen from Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as from Washington, Idaho and Montana. According to our latest estimated trajectory, the fireball traveled in a southeast to northwest direction entering the atmosphere near the small community of Boswell and terminating near Meadow Creek.

The American Meteor Society site has reports from: Bowen Island, B.C.; Spokane Washington; Calgary, Alberta; Claresholm, Alberta;  Vanscoy, Saskatchewan; Post Falls Idaho; Creston and Nelson; and Troy Montana, reported Rick Nowell, Astronomy Lab Tech at College of the Rockies in Cranbrook.

“I caught the fireball flash on my dash cam in Cranbrook at 11:11 p.m. MDT.  Here’s a couple of frames taken from Cranbrook by King Street, looking west, before and after.  You can see the “CRANBROOK” sign lit up by the flash on the left.  I didn’t hear any thunder in Cranbrook. People report hearing a sonic boom in Creston, and it rattled the windows in Nelson and Riondel,” Nowell said.

Susan from Riondel mentioned: “There was a tremendous flash, an bright orange and yellow ball, then about 30 seconds later a continuous loud rumbling noise.  The sound lasted a long time, and the ground shook.”

For a second she thought it might be the North Koreans sending an atomic bomb, it was that loud.

For a look at the Allsky video you can download it from this Google Drive link.

Lead image: Image taken with a fisheye lens that sees all the sky. North is directly up, east to the left, west to the right, and south below. Image provided by Rock Nowell, College of the Rockies

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