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Re: (meteorobs) Sacramento Daylight Fireball 06:52 PST April 3

Thanks for the info, Ed. I was a bit suspicious myself because of the speed, but 
figured someone is going to know if I posted it. It didn't dawn on me that a bird 
would be so large and fast in the image. It must have been a hawk or vulture that 
flew through the yard ver close to the camera. We have a lot of big birds here.

Ed Majden wrote:

> on 4/5/04 4:09 AM, Wayne Watson at sierra_mtnview@earthlinkdot net wrote:
> 
> 
>>Say, this is getting downright embarrassing. It's a plane! It's a meteor! It's
>>superman! No, it's starting to look like my meteor was a bird! One of the
>>experienced 
>>fellows who uses the camera too piped up that it looks like a bird flapping
>>its 
>>wings. What makes it look so fast is that it probably passed very close to the
>>camera. He passed along a few other tips on determining the likelihood the
>>object is 
>>a meteor. Much to learn. Ah, well. It looks like I'm still in a learning
>>stage.
>>
> 
> 
> Wayne:
>     Don't feel too bad about this.  It happened to me a couple of years ago!
> I had a fireball time reported to me and sure enough when I checked the
> tape, there it was!  Yes, on closer inspection, it was a low flying sea
> gull!
>     As for NASA and Tony Philips, they posted a sun lit daylight contrail
> that was reported as being a giant fireball over the UK.  Further
> investigation proved that it was in fact the Concorde.  Reputable people
> were on both sides of this argument.
>     What had me suspect of your video, was the velocity of your object.  No
> meteor would move that fast.
> 
> Cheers:
> Ed
> 
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                    1. Time is money.
                    2. Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

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