Fireball and missing time

It was a warm august night at around 6/7pm  Myself my brother and a friend were standing outside of cunningham school we were talking as we sat on the bike rack suddenly our friend yells out LOOK! we couldn't believe our eyes a gigantic orange fire ball shot across the sky  from east to west you could see the flames licking off of it leaving a smoke trail, it looked so close to us you could say it was likes a medicine ball flying across the sky on fire. we ran to the other side of the building which was only about 60 feet long but it was gone we ran to our friend house behind the school and talked his mom into chasing after it we drove down landis ave heading west for about 15 minutes but could not find it again suddenly it started raining pouring down tourents of rain for about a half hour,we headed back to our friends house my brother and headed home mom was really ticked off we asked why she said we were late for our curfew we looked at each other and tried to tell her we were only gone from the house for about an hour we looked at the clock it was 10:30 pm we looked at each other we were sent to bed we talked all night about how we lost an hour and a half we went back to our friends house the next day and asked our friend what time did this happen last night he said  around 7/7:30pm when we asked our friends mom she told us  we came in at around 9:30pm we all looked at each other. I'm 45 years old now I was talking to another old friend about that night and he told me that he and my older brother (5 years older than me) saw the same thing on the same night back in 1968.
Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.  PD