What exactly do you think nobody is trying to explain?
I'm the guy who's going through all the witness reports. I use that information to try and reconstruct the original orbit and resulting path of the fireball. That is the first step in understanding any possible relationship between the events, and it doesn't happen overnight (I've got 1500 reports from three fireballs.)
The preliminary evidence suggests the events are unrelated. There are currently no active fireball producing showers. The three fireballs over the central U.S. in the last month all had different radiants, so they are not part of the same debris stream. September 6 may have been a Taurid, October 6 may have been a Draconid, October 7 matches no known streams. While it is uncommon to have three such events close together, it is not unbelievably so.
Believe me, there is plenty of curiosity.
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What exactly do you think nobody is trying to explain? I'm the guy who's going through all the witness reports. I use that information to try and reconstruct the original orbit and resulting path of the fireball. That is the first step in understanding any possible relationship between the events, and it doesn't happen overnight (I've got 1500 reports from three fireballs.) The preliminary evidence suggests the events are unrelated. There are currently no active fireball producing showers. The three fireballs over the central U.S. in the last month all had different radiants, so they are not part of the same debris stream. September 6 may have been a Taurid, October 6 may have been a Draconid, October 7 matches no known streams. While it is uncommon to have three such events close together, it is not unbelievably so. Believe me, there is plenty of curiosity.