(meteorobs) My Disintegrating Meteor Photo Conclusion

[GeoZay at aol.com]

Okay, I'm going to try to consolidate what I believe is in the  
Disintegrating Meteor Photo that's being kicked around. The following is my  conclusion of 
what was photographed, hopefully without too much rambling. 
 
1. First, the photographer in no way hoaxed or manipulated the image.
 
2. The meteor image is not a meteor.
 
3. The meteor train image is not a meteor train.
 
4.There was some sort of vibration that showed up in the second half of a 2  
second exposure.
 
5. There were no bright stars photographed or perhaps none at all. If  
anything looks like a star, they are either artifacts or too dim to register any  
jiggling as the result of a vibration. I think the lack of stars was due to a  
combination of a bright moon just below the horizon, magnitude extinction along 
 the horizon and too short of an exposure. The exposure being about 1 second, 
 since the second half of the 2 second exposure was obliterated by a  
vibration.
 
6. The meteor image was that of an airplanes landing lights momentarily  
turned on. An apparent common practice amongst pilots flying over mountainous  
terrain. 
 
7. In the image, the plane is traveling right to left. The camera's shutter  
may or may not have cut off any of the apparent meteor image. Either way it  
wouldn't mess up what I'm interpreting.
 
8. The meteor train image was not a star, but one of the aircrafts caution  
lights that blinks at a rate of about once every 1 or 2 seconds. There might be 
 another caution light blinking with a shorter duration also in the image? It 
may  or may not be in syncronation with the other caution lights. One or two 
of the  other caution lights could be hidden by the body of the aircraft. The 
jiggling  of these lights imitating a train would also make it appear to be 
associated  with the apparent meteor image. Thus eliminating the coincidence of 
a star being  associated with a meteor. 
 
9. A right to left travel of an aircraft would explain why no apparent  train 
is seen on the left side of the meteor image, but just on the right side. 
 
Well...that's my interpretation for all what it's worth. :O)
George Zay