I must have walked into the report REALLY late...because what I saw were two glowing objects travelling through the black sky.
On my TV it looked as if the second glowing object was about one inch (on the tv screen) behind the first glowing object...when suddenly the second glowing object looked as if it had an explosion and a contrail appeared.
Is that the same thing you are talking about?
Oh, no sorry. I was reporting an incident that happened earlier over California. I believe what you saw was the shuttle actually breaking apart. They have been showing that on the news channels repeatedly.