MISSOULA — Many people across Western Montana saw a bright light streaking across the sky on Wednesday morning.
The National Weather Service office in Missoula reports a sensor detected what appeared to be a meteor at around 6:30 a.m.
The meteor was first detected over southwest Alberta.
It appears the GLM(Geostationary Lightning Mapper) #GOES18 sensor picked up a meteorite signature around 1331 UTC (6:31 AM MST) this morning, located over southwestern Alberta. There are multiple reports of the sky lighting up across western Montana. GLM is parallax-corrected. pic.twitter.com/zMYmmI2852
— NWS Missoula (@NWSMissoula) November 13, 2024
The American Meteor Society shows reports have come in from Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Western Canada.
