A video has been circulating showing a doorcam capturing a meteorite impact near a home in Canada. A recent NPR report indicates that a camera located on Prince Edward Island may have filmed the initial visuals of cosmic debris moving across the sky and falling to Earth.
Joe Velaidum had no expectations of anything unusual when he and his partner Laura Kelly walked their dogs outside on a July afternoon in 2024 in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Velaidum thought it was material that had fallen from the ceiling, as the stuff he was clearing seemed grey and dusty. Kelly’s nearby parents told them they had heard a loud noise from something bursting.
Geologist Chris Herd of the University of Alberta, who analyzed the gathered fragments, proposes it could be the first time anyone has recorded the sound of a meteorite impacting the Earth. “The Charlottetown Meteorite, being the first and sole meteorite from the province of PEI, certainly made a grand entrance.” “No other meteorite drop has been recorded like this, with sound,” says Herd. “It introduces an entirely new aspect to the Island’s natural history.”
They proposed that it could have been a meteorite collision. Velaidum examined his home security footage and verified that they were right. One expert believes that the meteorite impact represents the initial occurrence of entirely recording the sound of a meteorite striking Earth on video.
