Bonilla's own photograph puts the bodies within a few km: birds or insects close to the observatory, not a comet

Found 26 October 2026. Bonilla and his editor both state that on the photograph the body was in focus and the Sun was not. Simple optics then puts the body within about 4 km (and certainly within 23-30 km), which rules out the 2011 comet-fragment distances by a factor of 20 to 2,000, and with them the 46 m to 1 km sizes and the 'near-extinction' masses. At 1-2 km the bodies are 13-25 cm across moving 9-55 m/s, like small birds; nearer, insects. It also explains why Mexico City and Puebla saw nothing. Bonilla himself reasoned from focus that the bodies were 'nearer than the Moon'; the 2011 paper did not use the photo's focus. Not yet checked: whether Phil Plait's 2011 critique (Discover; archived copy could not be read here) or others already made the focus point. The editor in 1885 already guessed birds or insects.