“I’ve never been so scared in my life”: This is how Ruth Hamilton describes the feeling of waking up in shock when you hear a bang on the ceiling and when feeling debris on the face. A meteorite had just passed through the roof of the house and landed on the bed, narrowly missing the Canadian woman.
As a result of her start, Ruth turned on the light to try to figure out what had happened and discovered a hole in the ceiling. “I wasn’t sure what to do, so I called 911 [número de emergência norte-americano] and, when I was talking to the operator, I turned my pillow over and noticed that there was a rock”, he tells the agency Canadian Press.
After contacting the emergency services, a police officer was immediately dispatched to the scene. At first, the authority suspected that they were debris from the works taking place in the vicinity of the house. Construction workers reported that they hadn’t detonated anything, but quickly linked it to a meteor shower they had witnessed moments before.
It is confirmed that that night—October 3rd—there was a meteor shower in the sky over western Canada.
“I was in shock and just sat there for a few hours, shaking”, reports Ruth Hamilton, adding that she is relieved not to have been hurt: “The chances of this happening are so small that I am very grateful to be alive.” After the scare, Hamilton plans to save the space rock.
