Videos captured in southern Ontario show the moment a meteor flew across the night sky early Saturday morning. The meteor, dubbed #C8FF042, was approximately one metre in diameter, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). “A 1m object has struck in the skies above Niagara Falls, becoming a safe fireball,” the agency wrote on social media Saturday morning. The agency says its only the sixth time in history that a global asteroid warning caught the object “pre-impact.” Burlington, Ont., resident Alex Tinsley captured a video of the meteor at 3:26 a.m Saturday. In Toronto, the meteor was captured by Earth Cams Tower View camera. The last time a meteor was detected pre-impact was in March, according to the ESA, when an object first detected in Hungary struck near Greenland.
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