Orange cigar shaped object drops material.

We drove south of Fulton and stopped just outside the city line for a nature call.
 It was a perfectly clear night with many stars visible.
I looked up to the sky and saw an organge cigar shaped object moving slowly from the north.
 I told my friend to look at this thing.  The object stopped and a piece of the same color fell from it an then burst into flames.
 The object then moved slowly away in the same direction it came from.