It appeared like a “ball of fire, orange in colour and scattered”.
A month or two ago, I saw much the same thing over Northeastern Pennsylvania. It was very large, changed color and seemed to start breaking up before it flamed out. I asked a chemist friend (US-type chemist, not the Brit kind) what elements would burn with those colors, orange and green, and he thought it was just a large meteor; I guessed a piece of space junk making its way home.
It was quite a sight, let me tell you.