space junk?? comet? what is it ?

HI, im new the forum just wanted to say HI, and mabie ask a question,
I was looking up and around 7:24pm Est 12/1/2007 i saw what was the
brightest shooting star or space junk ive ever seen. did anyone else
catch this ?? it was a massive show, long tail and a lot of orbs
falling off of it like something was burring up on entry, it reminded
me of the shuttle disaster, does anyone know what this might have
been ? thanks for the feed back OH this was seen about due north in
South FLA Thanks