fireball comming right to me

I was a foreign student living and studying in Kiev,the capital of Ukraine. One summer (1989) day I was walking with my wife from the bus station to the studient residence when we saw a light comming torward as in the same path, It was bright and moving fast so I asumed, it was somebody on a bike, but the light was very steady, then we realized, it was gonna hit as, so I pulled my wife to the grass and that object passed by emiting a zooming sound, just like a wasp.....
I was a ball, like a red magma,it passed as and desappear into the night, mi wife got scare so we end up running to the residence. One thing that I notice, it was flying by its own power, no string attach,...
Only I few people have heard this story,sometime I ask my wife if she remembers this moment and yes she does, so I guess I was not dreaming.
Maybe this fenomenon is got a logic explanation, I don't have one.
Do you?  ((name deleted))  Canada