Strange light in the sky

I know this is rather late, commenting on this story but I just read it tonight and I too was totally amazed and questioning what I saw in the sky on July 1st, 2015 @ around 12:05 am.  I've lived in Lakeview Heights and now Shannon Heights since 1990 and on quite a number of occasions have watched Meteor Showers or have seen quite a number of  individual meteors (with a lengthy tail). With that said I have "never" seen anything like this - of this size... a large fireball with a very pronounced tail - until it disappeared behind Little White. It first appeared in the north west (on the left side of where I was sitting at the front of our home in Shannon Heights) catching my eye as it was so extremely bright coming out of the very clear dark sky and descending across the sky towards the east (over the lake) and disappearing behind Little White (semi in line with our home). What was astounding to me was that the large size and bright white yellow orangey glow at the front never dissipated as it went this distance along with the tail - longest tail that I've ever seen and moving slower then what my eyes were accustom to seeing. Usually, over all the years, anything that I have ever seen across the night sky has appeared from the dark, white, streaking fairly quickly across the sky and then disappearing into the dark as quickly as it had appeared and satellites, bright white, staying the same size, crossing very slowly across the dark sky, and with no tail. This was neither. I even thought that it might possibly be "space junk", debris of some sort, but it would have to have been something pretty huge (for the size it was when it disappeared behind Little White) wouldn't it?
 
At the time I called out to my husband immediately (I've never done that before) and unfortunately he missed it.  In the days that followed I shared this story, quite a lot (something I've never done before about things I've seen in the sky) and I even asked my son if he had seen or heard anything in the news about it (another first for me) and then I forgot about it....until I read the article tonight.
 
This is the first time I've never written in, about a news article, in my entire life. It sure would be interesting to know what it was or perhaps it will just stay as a mystery for me.
 
Ruth Grant