I saw this huge meteor thingy!!!

Last night at 4:45am I saw this blazing light and looked up and this ball of fire zip across the sky with a trail behind it. It was gone in a second. It was unbelievably cool!!!!!!! From Terra firma it looked about 10" across meaning it was large.
The night owl I am, I see tons of shooting stars but never anything quite like THAT!!! I was so in awe I scared the bejesus out of a poor raccon I crossed paths with! Poor dude went up a tree and gave me a word or two, in raccon language...!!!
Just thought I would share. :D
WAM

So you live close to a military base or airport???

Possibly what you saw was the the "burn-off" of dumped fuel as a jet was coming in for a landing. Its almost like a flash and trails behind them at night. In the daytime its the white streams of smoke you see across the sky behind a plane.

But then again - could be a UFO???

Maybe this (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20071116/sc_space/leonidmeteorshowerpeaksthisweekend) is what you saw?

My guess is Disney girl is right, because if was a UFO those poor aliens would be fried!!:tongue: I looked up the space.com site on this shower and this one I saw must have been a rather large one. I do live near an air force base, about 35 miles away maybe. My neighbor I told this to said he thought it was space junk, like an old satellite burning up. He is a pilot and said he sees all sort of things.
Anyhow it was cool!! Im going to have to watch again tonight!!
WAM

The longer I live the more unanswered questions I have & find it hard to reconcile that in an endless Universe, earth is the only planet that has any form of intelligent life.

& until someone actually proves there is no other life out there or proves that there is, I remain with a clear understanding of the possibility of maybe & maybe not, though I would lean toward maybe more than maybe not.

Somehow I just don't see earth as the only nor the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree:):)