The crash landing of the meteorite was captured on a Ring doorbell camera near a house in Canada

Canadian homeowners returned home in July 2024 to find a star-shaped pattern of gray dust on the driveway of their Prince Edward Island home.

Curious about the dust, the homeowners checked the security camera footage and saw a startling moment – a rock that looked like meteorite falling from space and crash-landing on a runway at home, said scientists at the University of Alberta, who published their findings from an accident earlier this week.

Ring's doorbell camera footage shows an idyllic, lush setting framed by a surveillance camera for about five seconds, when suddenly something appears in the frame and crashes into what appears to be the house's driveway on the side of the stone entrance.

The crash sounds like glass breaking or a pot falling when a meteor hits the track. University of Alberta science professor Chris Heard said this is the first time the sound and image of a meteor falling has been documented on video.

“No other meteorite impact has been documented like this, complete with sound,” Gerd said in a statement. “It adds a whole new dimension to the island's natural history.”

Gerd – who is also a university curator a collection of meteorites – arrived at the scene 10 days after the possible meteor crash to document the origin of the fragments found by the homeowners. They took 7 grams of rock from the grass next to the track and extracted more samples using a vacuum and a magnet. Gerd also measured a 2 x 2 cm hole in the track that was created by the impact.

He discovered that the fragments were indeed a meteorite and said it was a common chondrite with features that helped explain why it broke into pieces when it hit the ground.

Meteors can fall to Earth, but this is often a rare occurrence. In May 2023 another homeowner reported that a meteorite fell on her roof in New Jersey.

Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, told CBS Philadelphia at the time: “For it to actually hit a house so that people could pick it up is really unusual and has happened very few times in history.”

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