fire ball and min min

im 36 now but i remember when i was about 7 
my mum and dad and sister were driving home at about 1:30am from a weeks holiday in kalgoolie (about 8 hours drive inland from perth western australia), we were in the middle of nowhere when we saw a huge orange glow off the road through the very sparse and low scrub.
it looked like a full moon only orange sitting in the bush.as i remember it, it looked a lot like a huge eyeball. it lit up the whole bush, 
my dad at the time was in a volenteer fire brigade so he pulled over thinking it may be a fire.the night was turned to a bright orange haze. dad went into the bush towards the what seemed to be now a cylindricle object with a pupil, when all of a sudden he came running out of the scrub telling us to get back in the car, 
we all did, we never looked back and to this day we have never spoken about it to each other.
we have also had min min lights follow us at other times along that great stretch of road at night in the middle of nowhere.
Witness indicates that date is approximate.  PD