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When I was but a lad my Uncle had taken me outside to watch a meteor shower. I was looking in a southerly direction. The sky was very clear, only little cloud puffs here and there. About 15 minutes in to waiting we saw a ball of light (I don’t know that it was truly circular because it was very bright). It slowly moved in the sky, moved behind a small puff of cloud, and disappeared. I waited for 30 minutes for that thing to come out but it never did.
The only clue I had was a news report later that suggested a satellite had fallen out of a decayed orbit. What I saw never hit the ground and I saw nothing to suggest it was burning up due to re-entry through the atmosphere.