This was moving from high to low, and faster than anything I have ever seen.
I’m waiting for the evening news, maybe they will report something about it.
I want to say it was a meteor but this was extremely close if it was.
Was over ice fishing on Jackson Lake one time and we saw a meteor cruising along the tops of the mountains. In the daytime. I got freaked out when my dad sorta freaked out.
And there was a night some of us saw a green meteor streak across the sky. It was during a meteor shower. Figured that baby was pure copper.
meteors appear much, much closer than they actually are; it’s a very strong optical illusion, and stronger the brighter they are.
People routinely will assert that a meteor “must have hit just over the next hill” when it never got closer than 50 miles to the surface.
You’ve almost certainly seen a bright fireball; you can report it here (they then can take multiple eyewitness reports and calculate the speed, path, and and where the meteor came from.) You can also check other reports.
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/