About 11 years ago on a very clear, windy night I was around 2000' AGL on a southbound visual some 4 mi north of FAT. A brilliant orange-green meteorite crossed my field of view dead ahead, somewhat above the nose, moving at right angles to me on an east-west track. The flat descending path skipped like a stone on water, became greener, and vanished. The whole passage took a second or two maybe, nearly from one horizon to the other, as best I could judge it. Given the valley terrain, that span could have been 100 miles.
Said to myself, wonder how close that was.. 20, 30 miles, maybe. Very exciting.
On landing I wandered into the FSS - about the only thing open at that hour. The man at the desk asked: "did you seen anything strange coming in? An aircraft south of the field reported seeing a bright meteor. Crossed right in front of him, the pilot said. Other folks saw it. People have been calling us like crazy."
A little more conversation clarified that the second aircraft had been low, NORTHBOUND, and several miles south of FAT. His reported angle of view was similar to mine but pointed the opposite direction.
No wonder the Fresnians got out of bed at midnight to call the airport!
The inescapable conclusion was that this thing had passed right over the city, in the 6 or 8 mile gap between our two aircraft, at an altitude of perhaps 5000' AGL, going reeeely fast.