[CherylBower]

I saw something wierd. I live in the Denver area. On May 5, 2004, I was looking south, at night, and saw a very fast moving object. It was too fast for an airplane. It streaked for a very long way, then disappeared. It was not a satellite (too much light polution to see one of those). It moved just a little too slow to be a meteor (beside the length is moved was too long. And it seemed to have a trailer, not a contrail but like mouse trailed on your computer. What do you think?

[petuniasevan]

Meteors can move relatively slowly. If they have to catch up with Earth's rotation, and are fairly sizable, they can last a long time before burning up in the upper atmosphere. By "sizable" I mean bigger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder. These objects, called bolides, often create a path of ionized glowing air in their wakes. The glow can last for several seconds.

Sound like what you saw?