Even though this is for the American Meteor Society, you are encouraged to report fireballs occuring worldwide:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/faqf.html

You were apparently quite fortunate!

Kingfisher

They are reasonably rare - they are particularly bright shooting star. They do occur fairly regularly but most of them are obscured by daylight or over regions that are uninhabited. Even at night they are often missed, so you were lucky to see one as Kingfisher said.