A Massive Meteor Blew Past Toronto Today & The Fireball Lit Up The City (VIDEO)

Get your sunglasses out for this one.
Staff Writer

It was a bright and sunny day in Toronto today, but it got a whole lot brighter for an incredible split second.

At around noon, reports of a Toronto meteor began to flood in from Ontarians on Reddit and Twitter who wondered if anyone else had seen a huge meteor or an incredibly bright flash.

And as it turns out, one of the cameras on top of the CN Tower did catch the light show.

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In the video from EarthCam, a company with live feed cameras all over the world, you can see an incredibly bright flash engulf Toronto's downtown.

It lights up the city in the blink of an eye, and then it disappears just as quickly.

Almost 100 people have reported the meteor on the American Meteor Society's website, having seen it in Ontario and as far away as Richmond, Virginia, in the States.

And according to Dr. Denis Vida, a postdoctoral associate with the University of Western Ontario who spoke to CTV News today, the light is likely due to a basketball-sized meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere today.

Thanks, 2020, you always find a way to keep us on our toes.

  • Cormac O'Brien was an Associate Editor at Narcity Canada, covering all things exciting and trending about Canada. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Journalism from the University of Victoria, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper and was awarded the BCYNA Community News Scholarship for his writing. He was also the producer and co-host of Now On Narcity, Narcity's flagship podcast.

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