Mystery fireball that crashed and burned

[Still Waters]

Last week, bright, flaming objects were spotted in the sky over the island of Chiloe in southern Chile before reportedly crashing to the ground and starting a series of small fires. 

Resident Bernardita Ojeda showed local Channel 2 news where something fell from the sky and burned some bushes on her property:

Now, after a preliminary investigation, officials from Chile's National Service of Geology and Mining say they've ruled out a disintegrating meteorite as the cause after failing to find any evidence of space rock at seven points where fires were started. 

So what are we dealing with here? 

https://www.cnet.com/news/mysterious-fireball-that-crashed-and-burned-wasnt-a-meteor/

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/odd-fireball-mystery-unfolding-in-chile

[RoofGardener]

Chinese Lanterns. 

[Robotic Jew]

Flock of birds.

[+Desertrat56]

Space junk?  Maybe a missle or small incindiary rockets.

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

Remnants of a CIA satellite? lol  they can't talk about it 

[Grim Reaper 6]

12 hours ago, Still Waters said:

Last week, bright, flaming objects were spotted in the sky over the island of Chiloe in southern Chile before reportedly crashing to the ground and starting a series of small fires. 

Resident Bernardita Ojeda showed local Channel 2 news where something fell from the sky and burned some bushes on her property:

Now, after a preliminary investigation, officials from Chile's National Service of Geology and Mining say they've ruled out a disintegrating meteorite as the cause after failing to find any evidence of space rock at seven points where fires were started. 

So what are we dealing with here? 

https://www.cnet.com/news/mysterious-fireball-that-crashed-and-burned-wasnt-a-meteor/

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/odd-fireball-mystery-unfolding-in-chile

I doubt that we will ever get the true answer. Obviously whatever they have found is not something they want to talk about. I suspect it is debris from a Satellite or some such thing, that may be classified.

[stereologist]

I  believe a phoenix can start a fire it is fanned enough after crashing into bushes.

[qxcontinuum]

Although the article above informs the hypothesis to be a fire ball it does not provide alternative explaination.

[fred_mc]

There seems to be have been much UFO activity going on in Chile, and also in areas in Argentina close to the border to Chile, for a long time, at least if you follow the Contact series on Discovery where they are investigating UFO activity.

[KVM10]

I doubt they were Chinese lanterns!? The weather over the island of Chloe at this time of the year is too windy as we’re coming out of winter! It feels like space debris, however Chile is known to be a UFO Hotspot too! 

Whiles doing Time Lapses on the roof of my house in Patagonia this year I managed to capture one still of a light shining from above onto the trees below, truly stunning! Considering the house is on a rural mountain spot with no light pollution whatsoever was an eye opener!

So far I’ve seen glowing lights in the sky in Atacama desert (bright green over the salt plains), an orange ball moving across the town of Chiguyante with stunned locals looking up, and a bloody flying cloud which flew past me a speed whiles taking photos near a volcano! Nuts 

[Tom1200]

On 10/4/2019 at 4:22 PM, Robotic Jew said:

Flock of birds.

Angry Birds?

[tortugabob]

Exploding swamp gas.

[Jon the frog]

Seagulls full of spicy tacos having explosive diarrhea ? But the chance of fireworks is way higher...

Edited May 21, 2021 by Jon the frog