Kaptam is választ a tûzgömbrõl Finnországból:

Dear Monika,

This event was a true natural fireball. A meteoroid entering into Earth"s atmosphere.

We got at least 6 videos from it by our fireball camera network and couple of still photographs by aurora cameras. These cameras are in different locations in Finland. We also got almost 200 visual observations all around the Finland.

By using video material we have calculated that this fireball start to burn at altitude of 90 km and its entry velocity into atmosphere was 19.9 km/s. Fire ball fade away after fragmentation at altitude of 34 km. Sonic booms were hear locations near the end of the fireball trajectory. About 1-2 kg of meteorites are probably landed on ground. We are now trying to find some of those stones.

Those halos are visible in high clouds (7-10 km high) so the light must come behind those clouds. So the object was much higher than those clouds. Because view angle of my camera is very wide (84x69 degrees) it is easy to see that object was much more faster than any known airplane today. It was also faster than any man-made space junk would be since those entry velocities into atmosphere are about 8 km/s.
Fireball was all the time inside Finnish borders. So forget the Russian or Nato airforce! However, some weeks ago I got several jet fighters with my camera including fighter trowing anti-missile torches behind. Those fighters where Finnish air force"s american made F-18 Hornets traning air war manouvers.

PS. Our fireball camera network has recorded at least one missile lauch from Russia. But we have also got several bright meteors in Russian air space.
Best regards,
Jarmo