(meteorobs) spiralling meteors again

[YoungBob2 at aol.com]

Hello, friends:

The appearance of zig-zagging may very well be due to
autokinetic motion of the eye muscles.  It sure happens with
stars, planets moving satellites and even planes, why not with
meteors?  I suspect that the meteors have to be somewhat
slow to notice this effect.

I once saw one which I swear had a curved path.  While I wasn't
looking directly toward it and moved my eye to it, I never saw 
this with any other meteor, and most are not in the center of
vision.

Clear skies,
Bob Young