I sent Patrick a jpg I made from Google Earth showing a fairly straight line of fires that suddenly appeared yesterday morning. He might post it so all here can see it. This is what I wrote to Patrick in the email to which I attached the JPG: "I don't know if you remember me or not. Back in the late 80's I was a member of SLAS. Now I live in Morenci, Arizona. I've been keeping a pretty close eye on the Wallow fire because there is a slight possibility that it could end up coming down here to threaten Morenci. I've been using the U. S. Forest GOES fire detection system data that can be overlain on Google Earth. So yesterday morning, I opened Google Earth to check the Wallow Fire situation. I noticed a distinct line of fires, that started just north of I 10 near Wilcox AZ and ended up over in Texas. In the attachment, I drew a path to make it easier to see what I'm talking about. You can overlay the data on Google Earth yourself to see that the dots are really there. Just go to: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php?sensor=goes&extent=conus <http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php?sensor=goes&extent=conus> and select the GOES button then down in the KML box, next to fire detections, Current. It takes a little while to overlay Google Earth. After about 6 days the dots will disappear from the data. Since the line is something like 560 miles long and the dots appeared close enough in time together that they have changed color from red to orange to yellow at the same times, the dots had to have appeared within about 15 minutes of each other. The only things I think could cause this was if the satellite interpreted a fireball passage or space junk re entry as fires. What do you think? I decided to send the attachment to you because they don't like people attaching things to Utah Astronomy posts, but you have the capability of posting it somewhere to which you can put a link in a Utah Astronomy post." Then I thought I should post this here, in case there are some other minds that want to ponder what made the path of fires.