hey i found your post after doing some searching for anyone else that may have seen what we saw... it was around 6.10 last night (sat 15 march 08) and we were on our balcony in norman park, brisbane. sounds like we saw the same thing by your description, and we were pretty curious as to what it could be.. obvious guesses were meteor, comet, space junk etc!
it stayed visible to us for around 15 - 20 minutes but the 'fire trail' became increasingly shorter until it couldn't be seen at all.
we took a photo on digital cam of it but obviously it didn't come out too well..
anyone else know anything about this??
