Big fireball steaks through astmosphere

I have seen some amazingly bright meteor / fireballs during the year including exploding ones during the many years. One of the most unusal and spectacular ones was a lime green Perseid that was stationary. It just grew bigger and bigger in size (no tail) until it grew about the size of the moon (in the sky) and then fizzled. wow. Here is a photo taken recently of a huge fireball .
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=31&month=10&year=2008