(meteorobs) RE OT: a major daylight fireball tore across the skies of Slovenia

[Francisco Ocaña]

Just a comment. In the Croat TV webpage's video there are at least 4 
differente events recorded. The first is related to this bolide. The 
other 3 are made in Spain (Segovia, Valencia and Madrid) and are fake. 
They come from a "hidden" advertising campaign from Toyota.

Regards,

Paco Ocaña

Leo S. escribió:

> Hi Nikola,
>
> I think it's just a case of the media being a bit over enthusiastic in 
> trying to show the public what a bolide *might* look like, and in the 
> process misleading the public by showing what is certainly not a 
> meteor connected event. They probably found the video on Google Video 
> and assumed it was a real bolide, without making any checks as to its 
> authenticity - very unprofessional!
>
> I'm surprised also that Dr. Tony Phillips who maintains 
> spaceweather.com has not picked up on this, and is still portraying 
> the video as if it were a bolide event, even if he does acknowledge 
> that it is not a video of the actual Croatian event itself on the web 
> page.
>
> I'd also like to point out that if you full-screen the Google version, 
> you can clearly see a black object in between the "flares", and we all 
> know this is not possible with a meteor. As well as this, there is the 
> issue of the clouds, which would be back lit in the case of a meteor. 
> I think we can agree that this can not be a meteor ?
>
> It does however sound as if there was some kind of bolide event, if 
> there were indeed lots of eyewitnesses as the reports seem to 
> indicate. Perhaps Jure or Javor could comment on this as they are 
> collecting the accounts ?
>
> Best regards,
> Leo
>
> Nikola Biliškov wrote:
>
>> Also, I'm very suspicious  with this video (so curved trajectory) [I 
>> remember one "photograph of  meteorite fall" a few years ago, which 
>> occured in nearly all  newspapers in Croatia - it was TOTALY fake].
>> Nikola
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