The fireball seen in the sky from across Western Washington and British Columbia, followed by a sonic boom, was indeed a meteor which was travelling slightly east of north at a speed of about 33 kilometres per second, or about 119,000 km/h, reports confirmed. Several people called the police without understanding whether it was an accident or an earthquake.
Meteors are only the size of a pea but their high velocity can make them visible in the night sky. And the flash experienced Tuesday night in the sky was too fast to be human-made space debris. according to Robert Lunsford with the American Meteor Society.
