Witnesses nearby who took picture of the fireball said they saw the bird come down out of the cloud
and hit terra firma some couple hundred feet away.

After reaching 2300, it turned and dropped 500 ft
in 15 seconds. Impacting at 1085 ft
At below 1500 cloud gave way to fog/low vis.

-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.