orange glowing object

I remember as a young boy traveling in the car with my father,sister and cousin, we witnessed an orange glowing object shooting across the sky .My father immediatly said it was a ufo.Us kids were scared and knew that it was not anything we had ever seen before.Just as we watched the glowing object vanish across the night sky,two fighter jets were in hot pursuit obvouisly going after the ufo,there is a military base close by.I never reported this before but with my new computer system i found this web site so here it is.
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