“I’ve never been so scared in my life:“ BC woman nearly hit by meteorite

Ruth Hamilton was sound asleep last week when she was awoken by her dog barking, the sound of a crash through her ceiling and the feeling of debris on her face, the resident of Golden, B.C., said Monday. She said she jumped out of bed and turned on the light to figure out what had happened, and discovered a hole in her ceiling. “I’ve never been so scared in my life,” she said of the Oct. 3 incident. “I wasn’t sure what to do so I called 911 and, when I was speaking with the operator, I flipped over my pillow and saw that a rock had slipped between two pillows.” A police officer was immediately sent to investigate, she said. Initially, the officer suspected it was debris from a construction site on a nearby highway. “He called the (construction site) and they said they hadn’t done a blast but that they had seen an explosion in the sky and, right then and there, we realized it was a meteorite.” They concluded it must have been a fragment from a meteor shower that took place earlier that night. For more in