I was standing at the gas station waiting on car to be lifted on a tow truck. A object shooting up caught my attention. I thought it was fireworks so I waited for the bang. But no bang, the object just went straight up. As I continued to look the object appeared to have a flame and now started on a horizontal path opposed to the initial vertical flight. It flew away with a clear, sting ray like shape and motion towards the North East, small flame still in the middle body area.