Was it a crashing UFO? A meteorite? There’s no shortage of theories on the cause of an electrical flicker seen across the Lower Mainland and as far away as Vancouver Island and Washington state on Sunday night.

But according to BC Hydro, the real source of the 2.5-second flickering of lights and screens at 7:30 p.m. was much more mundane and disappointingly terrestrial.

“A car crashed into a pole in Delta,” spokesperson Susie Rieder told CBC News. “The pole was shattered