Watch: Meteor streaking across Vancouver night sky [Video]

It had been an ordinary Friday evening, driving to meet family for dinner, when Lawrence Bau witnessed something in the night sky unlike anything he had seen before.

A jet of vivid green light that appeared only for a moment, before disappearing as instantly as it had materialised.

“I thought I saw something in the sky in my peripheral vision,” he said. “It was a short streak, quite obvious. I knew it was a shooting star of sorts, and so I made a wish.”

Having just received the news that two good friends were pregnant and preparing to welcome children in the New Year, Bau said he wished they both would have healthy and happy babies.

“It was the first thing on my mind,” he said.

Bau had been travelling alone southbound on Granville Street, around the West 49th Avenue intersection, when the meteor passed by Earth and lit up …