(meteorobs) Fireball or Comet?

[prospector at znet.com]

Several photos do not look like contrails made by a single plane, nor does
the big head seen in a few of the photos look like it's a contrail of a
plane. The splitting of the "contrail" is something I've never seen, beyond
a short distance behind a plane they form into one contrail. The time does
present a problem.
                                Dave English
                            Oceanside, California

It's a little smoky around here today.