It was very beautiful. From the look of it, nothing reached the ground as a meteorite.
I am also pretty sure noting hit the ground...I will follow the Athen news tomorrow and post links...I feel for sure it will be in the paper.
I remember seeing some fiery debris from Skylab, but this was very bright. We have a moon tonight and this meteor or whatever created it's own shadows it was so brialliantly lit. It outlined my shadow over the moon's glow easily.
It's sounds like you saw what is called a fireball. I've seen two. One many years ago, lit up the 3AM sky like it was bright daylight for a few seconds. Incredible.
The second was last summer, it was at dusk, and looked like a fireball straight from the wicked witch of the west in Wizard of Oz. I reported it online to as meteor society who tracks fireball sightings and four others saw it too. Talked to an astronomy prof and she said it was probably space junk but was excited at my seeing two events.
I'll try to find the reporting site.
I love those kind of things!!!
DK