On November 16, the Leonid meteor shower was near its peak, so you probably saw a meteor from that shower. Although the majority of the meteors are caused by pieces of rock or ice the size of sand, some are as large as sugar cubes, and ping pong balls. If you saw one of these it would have been a spectacularly bright shooting star called a bolide. These are breathtaking by anyone who sees one. Some people report hearing faint booms as the supersonically moving object disintegrates. Frequently, colors are reported as the meteor evaporates, or ionizes the atoms in the atmosphere to glow with a greenish flickering light ( oxygen atoms being excited just as in the aurora borealis). Consider yourself very lucky to have seen such super meteors!