Impressive meteor

Me

[The Cajun]

Just saw the most impressive meteor I’ve ever seen in my 65 years.
At 5 minutes past midnight was doing my usual walk around outside the house and tractor barn and saw a meteor about 45 degrees off of the northern horizon moving from east to west.
Had visual for approximately 5 seconds as it covered 1/3 of the sky.
Pretty slow compared to other meteors I have seen.
The front was orange-yellow and green towards the back.
What made it really unusual is that even with my old eyes, I could see debris, greenish in color, falling downward fairly close to the back of it.
My first impression was, holy crap, that's close.
Lost sight of it when a tree was in the way and couldn't regain sight of it when I ran to the backside of the tree.
I waited for a sonic boom, but heard none.
Could have been space junk, but that normally moves from west to east and this thing was moving from due east to west.

The only reason I'm typing this up is because I was really impressed with it, never saw a trail like that and one that apparently slow.

[The Cajun]

LOL, actually I'm on my old clunker computer, 13 year old Gateway Pentium II 400Mhz running XP Pro and used 13 year old Adode PhotoDeluxe vs. 1 which is hardly compatible with XP.

Expecting a museum to call any day for the whole mess.

[The Cajun]

Thems the ones you worry about, no longitude or latitude movement, but they keep getting bigger and bigger.
Probably one of those situations where you would be correct in bending down, putting your head between your legs and kissing your a** goodbye :^)

[mnehring]

Gotta go find that Cajun.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks The Cajun. The only one I've ever seen in daylight (summer 2002 I think, if not it was 2003), and really the only one I've ever seen worth mentioning, looked a lot like what you describe, including the seeming proximity, but like you, I heard nothing. A search turned up no news about any impact. The apparent size was such that its irregular shape could be made out as it tumbled in.

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[Arlis]

Whooops! I stand corrected!

[X-spurt]

The green burn is reportedly from a copper meteor.

[The Cajun]

The green burn is reportedly from a copper meteor.

Yup and the orange sure reminded me of some form of sodium in a Bunsen burner flame from a few chemistry classes way back when.

[The Cajun]

Yeah, I'm going to check the papers and listen to the news tonight to see if I was the only yo-yo that saw it.
Think it burnt up before it hit the ground, but couldn't see because of the stupid tree.
It was getting very bright when I lost sight of it.

[TheOldLady]

Wow, mean man! That was really cool, and so is your picture of what you saw.

Like just about everybody, I've seen a lot of meteors, but none that were that spectacular. It's neat that you got to see that.

[The Cajun]

Yup, took 65 years to see a good’un, all I have to do now is run up north where I can see the aurora borealis and I'll be content on my seeings :^)