Yellow /orange fireball with a yellow to white tail about 3 second duration whitnessed by two, high in the north sky4 family members and myself were all standing around admiring the clear night sky and this bright blue prototype convertable Mustang that my Nephew had a hand in engeenering ( it was his weekend to take it home from Visteon), when I and my daughter's boyfriend(the only two faceing north) saw what looked to me to be a large (the proverberal size of a dime held at an arms length) orange/yellow Fireball with a yellow to white tail.It travled over head in a north to westerly direction and was at about 78 to 83 degreeze off of the horizen north .It just appeared out of the darkness of space.I had to post this because i heard that there have been a lot of sightings of large fireballs over parts of California the past few days and it was said that it is unusual to have two in a row, and i find this puzzling because what we saw was clearly at least two days prior to the California sightings.