Mysterious fireball lights up Edmonton sky: reports

The sky — and Twitter — lit up after a sighting of a fireball in the Edmonton sky Wednesday.
Was it a bird? A plane? More likely, it was a meteor.
A spokesperson for Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said crews were called out for reports of a fireball, but did not find a fire and were unable to identify the cause of the sightings, which started about 5:20 p.m.
In September 2017, the American Meteor Society received 90 reports of a “fireball event” in south central Briti