Tolsmaville, Ontario, Canada – Friday, June 19, 2026, 8:13 PM local time, A daytime meteor was observed entering the atmosphere at a steep angle, ending above Cockburn Island (prounced KOH-burn) in Ontario, Canada and shaking the area with a loud sonic boom. This was a large meteor event and it fragmented into many pieces which were detected by Doppler radar on the eastern side of Cockburn Island.
Meteorites from this event were positively identified on Doppler radar, with the highest concentration 2 to 4 km southeast of Tolsmaville. The search area is approximately 4 kilometers by 4 kilometers, in a wooded brushy area, with limited roads. The terrain is not ideal for meteorite hunting by any stretch, but due to the size of the event and the high meteorite fall density measured by Doppler radar, it is definitely worth searching, if you can get permission to search.
Cockburn island is mostly private land and camping is not allowed. The area where the meteorites fell is mostly owned by the Nature Conserrvancy of Canada, and closed to public access without a permit.
The weather data below is sourced from weather balloons, and publicly available via NOAAโs Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). This data is downloaded and post-processed by the StrewnLAB algorithm, to account for changing weather patterns and weather balloon drift. The plots have altitude on the y-axis, in kilometers above sea level. The wind speed below 10km has large effect onthe drift of meteorites.
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