When Roland Dechesne pulled away from his property early Tuesday morning, a bright blue-white object racing in the sky caught his eye. At first he thought it was an airplane, but within seconds the 48-year-old amateur astronomer realised the streaking object was a meteor.
"I saw only about three seconds worth of the flight before it broke up into about a dozen small blue-white objects that faded immediately" - Roland Dechesne, who is the president of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.