Just now—around 9:55pm—Laurie and I were sitting watching a DVD when we both saw a large white ball of light (with a greenish-blue tinge) flash across the sky, burning like mad. It seemed to be heading roughly south to north and had a long tail. I suppose it was a meteor of some variety, but certainly not your common-or-garden shooting star. It was enormous by comparison, even bigger, I think, than a burning airplane would have been, and travelling much, much faster and clearly higher up. I’ve never seen anything remotely like it. I expect that many people spotted it, doubtless including the folks nearby at Kitt Peak. I’ll be looking out for news reports about what it was, where it was headed and how much of it, if any, made it to the ground.