Just a few weeks before printing, however, the manuscript was withdrawn from the printers by the Editor and returned to the authors on account of its supposedly faulty grammar. The paper was re-submitted to the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, recommended by three referees, and accepted, and should appear soon. The unusual circumstance resulted in about a year's delay in publication. The 1996 December 16 fireball moved southwest over Vancouver Island, and the extrapolated ground level point is just off the west coast of Vancouver Island, near Tofino, though the error ellipse includes some land. The weather was cloudy over Tofino at the time, and the meteoroid may have become nonluminous, and subsequent enquiries located no further witnesses near that area.
Meteorite recovery is unlikely.
Three fireballs were reported over Vancouver Island in a five week interval in the spring of 1998. One of these produced seven independent reports of simultaneous sound. The investigation of them is complete. Laura Stumpf and I will shortly be submitting a paper on them to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Dr Bob Nelson of North Caledonia College quickly got together and trained a group of in situ interviewers and obtained numerous data.