After a late night of fishing while on vacation.My ex- wife and i saw a fire ball with a long fiery tail travel just above the horizon from north to south in a horizontal flight path for about five minutes.I shut the motor off and drifted while we watched it.It made no noise that we could hear.It was orangeish to white with a long curling fiery tail.I have always wondered what this was.space junk?meteor?The only thing I have ever seen that reminds me of what I saw that night were ancient chineese depictions of comets.I have since seen actual pictures of comets and this did not look like that plus it appeared that the thing was in our atmosphere not in outer space.