Saw something (possibly explode) in the sky…

Seriously. None of this UFO malarkey please, folks.

At about 10.25 tonight, I looked out of my mum’s living room window and saw an orange light in the sky, moving quite slowly to the south of Penicuik.

I got up and had a look, as my first thought was “That’s not a light from a plane”, and as I got to the window it split into two.

After a quick expletive, I ran to the door and went outside, and as I did so it kinda… well, disintegrated. Four or five bits kinda fell out of the sky before just disappearing (as though they burnt out).

I phoned the LBPD and they had no reports of anything like that, nor been briefed on anything in the area that might explain it.

So, could it have been a plane? Meteorite?

The Wikipedia entry describes meteorites as acting the way I saw, but when I looked outside it was flying along perfectly straight and level…