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

[Leo S.]

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