Yeah. I had since learned that meteors weren't always your typical yellow-orange balls of fire. But at age 12, astronomy was irrelevant -- we wanted UFO's!

ETA: Age 14, he would have been 12. Easy enough to figure out; they Olympic games in Atlanta were going on at the time.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
Ignore enough evidence and anything can be called mysterious or unexplained.