Saw something falling from the sky, leaving a smoke trail behind it.

I was crossing over a wooden plank walkway suspended over a clearing, on my way home from a early morning fishing trip. when I looked up into the sky and saw what looked to be an object falling from the sky. It seemed to have a smoke trail following it which made me believe it was falling from out of the atmosphere. Where just earlier this week a similar sighting was spotted in Alaska. I pulled out my phone and took multiple pictures and a video of it making a downward descent, making me believe its not an aircraft. Also afterwards when I had reached my street, i noticed animals in the neighborhood seemed to be restless. Ie. Dogs that were outside started barking and running frantically, i noticed more birds in the neighborhood than usual, squirrels, scurrying frantically up trees, and crows in the trees, which you almost never see in the neighborhood, started cawing aggressively almost at what seemed to be nothing. It was almost surreal.