2005-02-28 - Wellington, FL - Fireball

fireball-like sphere flickering in north-western sky

I was driving north on Forest Hill Blvd coming home from ym girlfriend's house about 11:20pm on 2-28-05. I was looking to the left of my vehicle and in the distance I saw a wierd light in the sky. Planes fly overhead in this area often as I'm close to a major airport, so I didn't think much of it, except planes are ussually white lights, and this was more orange, like an open flame. It also flickered slightly and had a slight haze around it. From my standpoint in my vehicle, it looked spherical in shape. I was watching it on and off while driving down the road as trees obscured my view every few seconds, but seemed to stay in the same position in the the horizon, so either it was stationary or it was moving directly perpendicular to me, like when a plane is coming right at you and it seems not to move. Then about 11:28, it just vanished. I searched the sky,but saw nothing but darkness and clouds. It didnt seem to have gone behind the clouds. More like if somone had hit a switch and turned it off suddenly. it looked very similar to something I saw back in 1998 or 99, when I saw a fireball coming down as if a meteor, but then leveled out its descent and cruised paralell to the ground for at least 30 minutes.