"Neil Bates" <neil_delver@caloricmail.com> wrote in message 
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This is great video (to my untrained eyes at least), whatever it really is 
or how really made:

http://www.vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/2869

Can anyone recognize the area, know any more about anything?

It's probably an picture of something that was launched from the ground in 
the part of the video that is cut out, before the part we see. The object is 
also probably smaller and closer than we may presume.

The "crash" looks to me like a white-painted piece of glass or pottery 
hitting the ground.