orange glowing thingy

[sunshine185]

Brother in law just rung me, he said he'd seen a glowing object worth a bit of a tail travelling west to east over Oldham. I told him it maybe a fireball as I'd seen something similar quite recently, but when I had put the phone down I went outside but its 100% cloud cover and chucking it down. Any ideas what it could have been?

[Moonshane]

chinese lantern?

[sunshine185]

I asked him that, said it was bigger, brighter and had a glowing tail. I guess with the bad weather nobody else saw it.