a very bright light -- initially it looked like a spotlight from a helicopter. The object then broke apart into smaller, brightly lit pieces," said Karen Miller. "At first it looked like a plane with its landing lights on," wrote Charlie Pellegrino. "It looked just like the meteors you see in the movies, big round, on fire, and blazing across the sky. It lit the western sky in a blaze of rainbow colors and showed no signs of fading away as it disappeared over the Flatirons and into the ...