(meteorobs) spiralling meteors again

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YoungBob2 at aol.com wrote:

>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.
>  
>
An example of "anomalous motion illusion"

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html