I have been here since the beginning of this thread as well as most who are participating. I will say that it is facinating and has my imagination running wild. Several times a week I spend about 20-30 mins. sitting and staring up into space with the words of op and everyone else randomly dotted in my mind like the stars above. On two occations I've noticed something I have never seen before. That is, I saw a star move. Not just a little bit, but across the sky. The first time was about 2 weeks ago, 10:30pm loc. Cent. NC movement from sw to e. I thought, it's a plane, but no blinking lights and it was UP THERE, I mean high. Plus, I see planes at night all the time, I seem them when they enter my field of vision and I see them when they exit. This was a Star that was in my view that just started moving at the speed of a super high alt. plane. As I was following it, it just disappeared, not into the horizon, but more like poof, gone. Well the 2nd happened about 20 mins ago, same location. This time the start only travelled a short distance before disapearing. I have seen plenty of shooting starts in my day and this was not the same. Just think of seeing a star move across a portion of the sky at a steady speed and then just be gone before your eyes. I don't know what is going on up there, I just know that I've never seen this before. Any thoughts?