Ask any pilot that has been flying for at least a few years and especially at night, we see some weird unidentifiable things sometimes, especially at night. Shooting stars, comets racing across the galaxy are all identifiable, but every once in awhile, I would see something off in a distance, usually above my plane, with different colored lights, some with a strobe, which is what would catch my eye. It would look close, yet I knew it was miles off into the distant. As a pilot, we tend to just shrug it off as another plane that maybe is banking or whatever and that makes it look weirder than what it really is.