Meteorite? What the heck?

[lamentiraestaahifuera.com]

Hi colleagues!

Look this footage. It comes from a news channel in Peru.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RqLbYfBKM&NR=1

They say that this is a meteorite and that it is the cause of the burnings happened this summer. Can you believe it?

Then look other medias that echoed the new. What is happening in the world? Are everybody crazy?

Regards.

[Mick]

Unfortunately this is not the first time this kind of thing happened, see:

http://contrailscience.com/short-sun...look-like-ufos

San Mateo Times, Jan 12th, 1950:

[Jay Reynolds]

I doubt that they see many contrails in Peru. It's understandable that people see it and are not familiar with it.
Probably it was a slow news day.
Spanish speaking TV news outlets often sensationalizes things.
An interesting case, and it is winter in Peru.

[Mick]

Even made the mainstream, MSNBC "Possible meteorite shoots over Peru". Basically the media is just parroting anything that sounds interesting. They assume that someone upstream did some fact checking, so as soon as some trivia type bunk gets chucked in, it takes quite a bit for it to get stopped.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44287575#44287575


Sadly it makes the top of the page of video news about the Americas:

[lamentiraestaahifuera.com]

I can not see the video in my region, Mick . I don't know the date of this notice, but the Cusco's video was recorded 12 days ago. In Channel N was said that the footage was dated from last thursday, buth the author says now that he lent the tape to a mate, (he didn't sent it to channel N) and the meteorite was fielmed 10 days ago (from thursday).
Here is the interview in RPP.
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2011-08-26-met...ia_397969.html

And this is the post in my blog. You can translate it to English with the google button in the upper right corner.

http://www.lamentiraestaahifuera.com...mbin-la-cagan/

[Mick]

It's the same video on MSNBC, just with the reporter parroting the basic story from Peru.