Tonight, a few minutes ago, I saw a bright star-like object fidgeting around in the night sky. It was jerking around erratically, going first toward the right, then up, then to the left, then diagonally, then down. It moved quickly, sporadically, uncertainly.
The photo accompanying this post is the best I could do with my Canon 10X optical zoom digital camera. I enlarged it substantially in my graphic utility program to show it closer up. Notice the pink color.
I saw this phenomenon only once before in my life. It was around 1998. The exact same thing, a jerky movement of a star-like object. It could not have been a star, or meteor, or airplane. Someone suggested it was a communications satellite that was being adjusted. That's the best tentative explanation I've yet to hear.
BELOW: An enlarged view of the first photo.
ABOVE: A second photo of the oddly fidgeting object.
BELOW: An enlarged view of the second photo.
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