Family capture 'first ever' footage of sound meteorite makes after it falls from sky onto their property

The sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded, and scientists believe it's a first.

A family from Canada, who were lucky enough to capture Ring footage of the meteorite falling onto their property, say 'it's not anything we've ever heard before'.

Joe Velaidum, from in Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, says he's lucky to be alive after 'standing right at the point of impact, just minutes prior'.

A Canadian family captured the 'first ever' footage showing what it sounds like when a meteorite hits the ground (Compass Media)

Before Joe and his partner Laura headed off on their dog walk, the home owner said he noticed that a leash was on the grass that day on 25 July, 2024.

He went and moved it because landscapers were supposed to be coming the next day.

Had he stayed there for a minute or two, Joe believes a meteorite would have struck him.

Joe said: “It is surreal to think about just rare and how close this encounter was. I was standing right at the point of impact, just minutes prior.

“It’s mind blowing to think that this hunk or rock travelled hundreds of millions of miles and landed on our front doorstep where I was standing, exactly, a few minutes prior.”

“So, when I was innocently moving that dog lead, a meteor was hurling towards me,” he added.

“We didn’t know this until we came back from the walk. When we came to the walkway it was covered with black rocks. They were everywhere.

The University of Alberta have studied the findings (University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

“We had no idea what caused it, so we started to clean it up. Laura’s parents live close to us and were outside, and heard a large bang when we 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.

“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.

The footage of the incident was captured on Ring (Compass Media)

“That’s when we contacted Chris Herd, the well-known meteor specialist from the University of Alberta, who eventually confirmed this as a meteorite strike.”

“As the first and only meteorite from the province of PEI, the Charlottetown Meteorite sure announced its arrival in a spectacular way. No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound,” Chris Herd, curator of the University of Alberta’s Meteorite Collection said.

“It adds a whole new dimension to the natural history of the Island.”