trail-free meteor?

Been a long time since I have been here folks, too many zetafreaks, but the
other morning I witnesse something so odd that I had to come here in the
hope of finding out what it was.
It was around 6am(GMT) on Wednesday morning of this week. Was looking south
east and having a cigarette, when myself and a cow orker both seen the same
thing.....
What we observed was, essentially, a meteor. It moved vertically downward
from our perspective, moving through aroung 25 degrees of arc on the sky,
vanishing about 30 degrees from the horizon, and was as bright as the
brightest star in the sky at the time ( venus?). What was odd ( and what
propmpted a lot of "did you see that too????")was that it was a point
source of light, not even the merest hint of a trail or afterglow of any
kind whatsoever. it looked more than anything like a satellite passing
over, but speeded up 1000 fold.
The only thing that comes to mind at all ( and this will probably get me
laughed out of here) is that maybe the recent solar activity was having
some effect on the outer atmosphere that prevent the formation of the trail
( it's mainly ionized gass isn't it?), though I am not sure the effects had
reached us by that time.

Does anyone have any ideas at all as to what may have been going on, because
we ) myself and the other witness) are bother starting to think we may be
insane