A Victoria woman went out on her porch at 6 a.m. this morning to feed her cats, looked up, and got the surprise of her life. “There was this great big evil eye staring at me down from the sky,” said Mrs. R. Desureau, 28 Douglas Street. “It was a big ball of fire with orange and yellow streaks coming out of the sides and back. I saw it first over Beacon Hill Park. Then it moved east towards Seattle. I watched it with field glasses. It got smaller and smaller. In a few minutes it was gone. When I wake up I’m wide awake, so I’m sure of what I saw. Once I saw Jupiter but never anything like this. At first it was real scary – like right across the street. After all, you know what they say, what goes up has to come down.”

Spokesmen of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and the Victoria Airport weather office did not confirm Mrs. Desureau’s early morning sighting, but they said she might have seen a meteor. A meteor is a piece of stony matter hurled into the earth’s atmosphere from space. Meteors usually burn up before actually falling to earth.