Sound of Meteorite Striking Earth Captured for First Time by Ring Camera
Prince Edward Island, Canada resident Joe Velaidum and his wife Laura had just left his home to take his dog for a walk when the incident took place. While firsthand accounts of impacts have been heard before, they haven’t been captured—until now. Velaidum’s Ring doorbell camera happened to capture the impact, which shows the meteorite darting to the ground and exploding in an impact near his front door. According to the time stamp on the footage, the incident took place on July 25, 2024.
He says his wife’s parents live nearby and heard a “large bang” while the two of them were out walking the dogs.
“As we were cleaning it, they came over and Laura’s dad thought immediately that it could be a meteor. We were both skeptical,” Velaidum says. “But when we went onto the video cameras, we saw that something hit with a tremendous force in the exact spot I was standing just a few minutes earlier. That’s when we contacted Chris Herd, the well-known meteor specialist from the University of Alberta.”
Velaidum sent samples of the “star-shaped” fragments left on his sidewalk to the University of Alberta’s Meteorite Collection to verify its authenticity and curator Chris Herd confirmed that it was a meteorite.
