Sunday evening I heard a loud bang – thought it was a cattle hauler pulling up to the stop sign outside the house. Turns out, it was a sonic boom.
A brilliant fireball streaked across the central Saskatchewan sky Sunday night around 8:30 p.m., providing a colourful spectacle and rattling windows and walls with its pressure wave. But what has astronomers agog is the possibility it landed.
| A Saskatoon astronomer interviewed this morning confirmed that cameras in Calgary caught an image, and indicate that the fireball – described by some witnesses as blue in color with a long orange and white tail – was moving slowly enough to have survived entry and probably landed in the Kindersley area – around 80 miles from here. |  |
Despite the dramatic display, the show lasted only about four seconds. But it will stay in the memory of Ronalda and Ben Kleinsasser, who farm near Kerrobert. That’s where Beech suspects the meteorite may have hit because of the intensity of the smell and tremors.
“I was watching TV when I saw this ball of fire dropping out of the sky with a tail of flames,” said Ben, who described the rock as larger than a half-ton truck. “I watched it coming down until it was right in front of us.
“My hair went up on end and I had goose-bumps. It was wild. And it rumbled the floor pretty good because my daughter came running upstairs asking if someone fell in the house.”