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Lou Frank has been attacked for twenty years on this subject.

I thought it was hilarious how the radar data of small meteorites, the 1980s small comet satellite data, and the 1990s small comet satellite data all give exactly the same graph. And that astronomer who developed the skeet shoot method of getting an exposure on these objects was great. Too bad he died so soon. I think it was diabetes.

Something everyone who accepts the reality of stones falling from space but not water should remember is what the scientists were saying about folks who claimed that stones were falling to the ground from space back in the 18th century:

The German physicist, Ernst Florens Chladni, was the first to publish the then audacious idea that that meteorites were actually rocks from space.[35] He published his booklet, "On the Origin of the Pallas Iron and Others Similar to it, and on Some Associated Natural Phenomena", in 1794. In this he compiled all available data on several meteorite finds and falls concluded that they must have their origins in outer space. The scientific community of the time responded with resistance and mockery.[36] It took nearly 10 years before a general acceptance of the origin of meteorites was achieved through the work of the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot and the British chemist, Edward Howard. Biot's study, initiated by the French Academy of Sciences, was compelled by a meteorite fall of thousands of meteorites on April 26, 1803 from the skies of L'Aigle, France.[37][38]

I have a feeling that this "community" is a lot more resistant now to new ideas than it was then. Of course, that very public fall of thousands of meteorites in France helped a lot. Too bad we couldn't luck out on this one with something like that over, say, Washington, D.C..