quick burst of the purest white light in the sky.

I was just getting out of work, turning the corner out of my works parking lot, when I looked to my left exiting I noticed a small glimmer in the sky. When I looked to observe it the object drastically increased in size very rapidly and burst into the sky with a very clear outline of shape but no audible sound (I was driving windows down, no radio playing) almost as if you would see in a comic book with "POW" written inside of it. This was the most brilliant and pure shade of white I had ever seen, incredibly pure in color. This event happened as if I was watching an old movie reel and it got to a sun faded or damaged part of it, like the movie of real life had a missing portion in its story.