Back in th early '90s (I would have to do a dig to find my log to be more accurate about dates
) I was up at the local lookout one night doing some astronomy with binoculars. I had my head down in the back of the station wagon either checking star charts or writing in my log, when I was lit up by headlights (or so I thought).
It was a bit creepy because I didn't hear any car come up behind me. Sure enough, no car, but I looked up in time to see a bright blue fireball approaching from the East, and the whole town was lit up almost like daylight (just with a blue tinge like light from an arc welder).
The fire ball broke in half, then as it went over head, both halves broke into lots of little bits leaving orange trails, and that's when I heard a sizzling sound.
It's the only meteor/bolide I've ever heard. This story got me an AST tee shirt once!
Al.