SKY IS FALLING

Fireball photographed over South Wales

Jon Burnett, 15, from South Wales, UK, was photographing some friends skateboarding last week when the sky did something very strange. By diverting his camera, he was able to document this rare sky event and capture one of the more spectacular sky images yet recorded. Roughly one minute later, he took another picture of the dispersing trial. What is it? Experts disagree. The first guess was a sofa-sized rock that exploded as a daytime fireball, but perhaps a better hypothesis is an unusual airplane contrail reflecting the setting Sun. Bright fireballs occur over someplace on Earth nearly every day. A separate bolide, likely even more dramatic, struck India only a few days ago.

[NASA boffins who hailed a British lad’s photo as a dramatic snap of an exploding meteor were exposed as duffers a week later. Aircraft enthusiast Mike Stradling claims Burnett actually took a picture of supersonic Concorde and not a galactic space rock. NASA has admitted they were wrong.
Having cleared that up: millions of people routinely deny reality every day rather than endure the cognitive dissonance triggered by their actions. more]