[TiberiusAD]

[quote:fb961]how stupid us americans can be. [/quote:fb961]

That is just shallow. -1

These are "New Englanders" reporting a possible plane crash... quite understandable in my opinion. If any region of the country would be on edge about plane crashes, I would expect them to be.

A meteor shower, you understand are huge hunks of rock and iron falling from the sky at thousands of miles per hour. They typically burst into flames, and often are incenerated before impact... thus creating the lights and flashes.
It is not uncommon for some of these rocks to actually "survive" and crash into the ground, causeing forest fires, destroyed property, and make huge crashing - ground rubbling sounds.

Stupid is certainly not the term to use, perhaps ignorance to the cellestrial events, but the best term to use...in my opinion would be concern.