Hi Frank,
That must have been a great experience to see that meteor break up. It is a bolide and is a rare sight. Most meteors are very high up, around 100km or so, so it likely to have been much further away horizontally than it appeared. Check out this link to the American Meteor society, you might even report it to them, they say that they want fireballs reported from anywhere in the world.
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/
John