Meteor, UFO or Russian Rocket?

With the “meteor theory” still uncertain, speculation about the cause of the falling object seen in Canada’s night skies last week continues.

Alien Casebook Frontier offers this fascinating theory:

The slow pace of the fireball favors decaying space junk and indeed it may have been a Soyuz rocket body reentering Earth’s atmosphere a day earlier than expected. The Soyuz rocket launched a Russian Defense Ministry reconnaissance satellite codenamed Kosmos-2445 on Nov. 14th.

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Canadian Meteor Crash Compared to “Billion Watt Bulb”

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Scientists say they hope to find remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before falling to earth in western Canada.

University of Calgary planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand called it one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade.

Widely broadcast video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball Thursday night over Saskatoon that became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground.

Hildebrand said Friday that he received about 300 email reports from witnesses.

“It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb,” said Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency.

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