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Meteorite Crash in Canada Is Caught by Home Security Camera in Likely World-First Video Footage

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Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly noticed strange, star-shaped debris in front of their home last summer .

They checked their security camera footage, and that’s when they saw and heard a small rock plummeting through the sky and smashing into their walkway.

It landed so quickly that the space rock itself is only visible in two of the video's frames.

The University of Alberta announced the event in a statement on Monday .