Night Sky Oddities.

Just occasionally I’m treated to the sight of something strange in the night sky. Tonight it was a small cloud glowing white for several seconds before turning dark again. And then another one would glow, and then the glow would pass across several clouds, as though somebody was moving a high powered searchlight across them. I expect it was some kind of electrical discharge, but there was no flickering as there usually is with lightning.

What’s stranger is something I’ve seen twice this winter – a small point of light like a star moving across the sky in a straight line and at many times the speed of a commercial airliner. They had none of the characteristics of a meteor about them, so I thought they might be asteroids or comets. But then, a few nights ago, I saw two travelling in opposite directions. They passed close to one another, and then one of them turned through 90° and continued on a new course. Asteroids and comets don’t do that, do they?