one evening in the early fall a huge red glowing but soft fireball came down right beside me staying with me maybe 5 or 10 minutes

I was very young when I saw this big red what I called the big red fireball. A huge red glowing ball came right down beside me on my front sidewalk.  I could have touched it. This thing was huge but it seemed soft to me. It bounced a couple of times barely touching the ground. When I tried to touch it it jump up very fast but then came back down agin slow. After that it went up a little and then went straight up into the sky like it was flying I saw a couple of lights and then they just dissappeared. When I went into my home to tell my mother my face was burned a little. I don't know what this was.
For my mother said I looked like I had just been to the beach as she was washing my face with cold water.  She did not see this thing but she knew something had happened by my skin.
I will never forget this and sometimes I have dreams about it.
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