People started reporting seeing what they believed was a meteor streaking over the island headed south around 5 p.m. Some believed it may have actually come down on a mountain near Port Alberni.
"It was kind of crazy. The camera on my phone is not that great but in person it was humungous, it was like a great big huge fireball," Dick says. His dashcam shows a meteor appearing in the cloudless sky above Campbell River and then heading down the island. His posting on Facebook says it was the "coolest thing ever."
Maya Cotton tells CTV News she was in a hot tub with friends when a bright orange, green, blue and white light went from east to west over them in North Saanich.The meteor actually appeared to make a hissing noise as it crossed over their field of view, says Cotton.