Yet a number of conflicting reports exist in which the meteor's path has been described as being curved, kinked, spiral or wavy.
Curved meteors are by far the most common.
There is actually photographic evidence of this happening. In 1972 James M. Baker captured a bright daylight fireball on film as it skipped across the skies over Great Jackson Lake in Wyoming. However, there are a number of observations that cannot be explained so easily. Appeared between Alpha and Beta Cameli, disappeared near Theta Persei. Opponents of this view argue that most meteoroids are fragile dustballs rather than solid rocks - but that could be the very reason why such occurrences are rare.