Any one knows what a meteor is so I think that is
trying to simplify it too much.
Hoaxes with pie panís and camera has probably been done.
but pilots reported UFO,s back in the 1940s and many times
since.
My wife and I saw a solid green light travel from the eastern
horizon to the western horizon in 8 to 10 seconds one time when you heading south in the Mexico dessert.
A jet would take several minutes and a meteor would take a second.
A whole lot of denial.
But that's OK. They still come to these threads, so they must be trying to come to grips with this thing which is indeed scary to everyone.
I used to tell Quix about the fear/attraction of UFO's to Freepers/skeptics who kept showing up on the same threads (he may not remember).
Maybe someone will ask him?;-)