Neat - back in the late ‘60s, a friend and I were outside his house in the suburbs just south of Rochester, NY. We saw a meteor, moving low across the sky and i was kin of eerie because it almost seemed to be moving slow and there was no noise; just the bright light at full daylight. The news said it had landed in a swampy area north of Rochester (possibly east too). but I have no Idea if they ever found it. It was reminiscent of looking up at just the right time and seeing a picture fall off the wall - just happened to look up during the right 20 second or so time frame.
What henkster mentioned about sound — that is something that observers have reported from time to time, it probably has to do with how near the object is once it reaches the lower atmosphere.
Each time since childhood that I’ve tried lying out in the cool grass watching for ‘shooting stars’ I’ve gotten bored and just come inside for the night. Except for one time, the only things I’ve seen have been that quick motion detected in my peripheral vision, which leaves nothing by the time I’ve turned my head; occasionally I’ve been looking dead-on, but there’s been almost no ‘streak’ because these objects (usually smaller than one’s thumb, or even thumbnail) burn up after a second and ten to twenty miles of upper atmosphere.
The one I saw in 2002 happened during the day, and while it made no noise that I could hear, and I never heard anything about it on the news and whatnot, someone pointed it out, asking me, “is that a shooting star?” He’d been watching it for at least a few seconds by that time, and I watched it perhaps ten seconds before it sank below the trees and hills and whatnot. It was large enough at whatever distance it was to appear irregular in shape and tumbling, leaving a trail of light and dark, as it was apparently falling apart. Wish I had vid of that.