Home video and audio of a meteorite crashing into the sidewalk outside a Canadian man’s home is believed to be the only recording of its kind. “As far as I know, and I’ve asked around, it’s probably the first time that the sound of an impact of a meteorite hitting something at the surface has even been recorded,” University of Alberta meteorite expert Chris Herd told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Prince Edward Island homeowner Joe Velaidum noticed white debris on his lawn and sidewalk after walking his dog last July. When he checked the footage from his doorbell camera, he noticed a fast-moving object fall from the sky, accompanied by a sound that resembled ice breaking. Velaidum then gathered about seven grams of that debris and delivered it to researchers, who concluded his property had indeed been hit by a meteorite. Herd met up with Velaidum a few days later and the pair recovered nearly 100 more grams of debris. Though researchers confirmed the samples to be from an ordinary chondrite meteorite, the most common space rock that strikes Earth, it’s the only meteorite known to have landed on Prince Edward Island, which sits roughly 400 miles northeast of Maine. Herd said he saw evidence that the meteorite may have been dinged while it was bouncing around in an asteroid belt. By the time it reached the ground — traveling more than 120 mph, he estimates — the damaged object easily shattered, thus producing the sound heard on the unprecedented recording. Valaidum told the CBC this week that he’d been standing where the object hit only minutes earlier, and he can’t help but wonder what could have happened if he’d stayed there just a bit longer. “It probably would’ve ripped me in half,” Velaidum told the outlet.