observed craft 2 times within 2 hours

I witnessed an unknown object on the night 8/21/2020. It was around 10:00pm. I saw a bright orange light coming from behind the clouds. Once it was in front of clouds it stayed in place. The color reminded me of a forest fire at night. it must been at least 5 miles away and high in the sky. It was round initially...like a shape of a ball. It had to been huge for me to see so distinctly from far away. It would change shapes. If you ever seen the movie Arrival... from 2016. There is a part in the movie where the aliens a using their own sign language...making different shapes...it was similar to that in different shapes.The color always staying the same ...forest fire color at night. I've never seen anything like it. There is interstate 20 nearby. Anybody traveling east or west on I-20 around 10pm on 8/21/20 would have seen it. This all lasted about 3 minutes before the changing shape became a ball again and then disappeared. I checked the news the next day and nothing was reported. These are not actual pics ...they are illustrations of what it would do when it would make different shapes. I did not go inside to get my cell phone because I did not want to miss anything.

Scene from the movie The Arrival, Photo credit: Paramount / https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13630368/arrival-discussion-roundtable-linguistics-design-diplomacy-contact

this light was in the sky for 3-4 minutes. this completely rules out the possibility of it being a meteor or any sort of space junk.

meteors enter the atmosphere at 25,000-100,000 MPH and burn up within a fraction of a second.

space junk falling to Earth also could not be this slow, nor could it glow so brightly.

the fact that this light was in the sky for 3-4 minutes is conclusive proof that it was some sort of craft. it was not something falling to Earth. it was a craft flying across the sky.

(i've seen) "nothing like this of this magnitude"

"approximately lasted 3 to 4 minutes"

Yeah if they was over my home I damn sure would! My boyfriend saw them, he had witness to it, he's not into the YouTube stuff, at all! But a very smart man, I shown him what I saw three weeks ago, flying really low over highway 19 in grapeland TX, Houston county, it looked big, I thought a jet was crashing, then the direction the drone plane went DPS was sitting, on a FM road, so does the state of TX have drones? Flying over us? -Twisterbar

Could we be having a dramatic uptick in solar bodies finding its way to near earth... Sure. However, the latest possibility in MY head is to try and either find evidence for or rule out a correlation (sp) between all these 'rocket/sattelite' launches and the meteorites/fireballs. Keep up the good fight. God Bless - JMHobbsRN

Seems like their trying to get us ready for some almost blue beam,like so many people woke up to aliens,and ufos,and with the Russian thing,like their gonna use Blue beam weapons and say martial law,natural desiaster,got meteors comimg down,few of those drop over a big city or two blowing out all the glass,people will be ready.to be saved by government,saved from the big bad meteors, - Jon Clem

"Every color of the rainbow has been reported with orange and yellow being most mentioned ... may be the re-entry of a Chinese rocket"
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I counted eight meteor looking small fireballs streaking in formation right to left from a 123 degree angle, for about 2 minutes. 3 of the meteors or comets exploded the other eight kept a perfect formation. I never witnessed such a moment at 3am central time 2/27/13 I was jogging in Sweeny, Tx on 1108 early st. 77480, looking from north to south, they appeared from a southerly direction and lasted about 2 min. heading and dissapearing in a northerly direction. - Lester D. of Sweeny, TX

I have studied the heavens since I was approximately 8 years old ...at first I thought it was a group of military transport planes in formation. Then I thought it was space junk however, it was moving at a high rate of speed. There were several trucks on the road at the time of the appearance so I'm certain someone else saw what I saw. - Dennis L. of Kirvin, TX

Between 12-20 fireballs, packed in a group, with glowing tails on each. Traveling around the same speed as a low flying jet. No sound, only sight. Mike C. of Prairieville, LA

I think this was the reentry of rocket body CZ-4B. - William B. of Houston, TX

I am an airline pilot and was at 38000 feet enroute from bogota Columbia to Houston tx during the event ... An illuminated smoke trail glowing in the moonlight. - Karl K

I woke up at approx 3.00am, used the restroom and was looking out of a large window which has a view of Cotton Lake and beyond to Trinity Bay in Chambers county, I noticed lights approaching over the lake from the southeast. The lights 10 to 20 were configured in a cigar shaped line, moving rapidly, heading in a northwest direction. At first I thought it may be a group of helicopters, we often see helicopters doing night maneuvers in this area. As the lights got closer I realized that they were not helicopter or aircraft lights. The lights were white/blue and varied continously in intensity and position in the line, it was hard to judge how far away the object or objects were from me, there was no sound associated.I last saw the lights as they pasted on the northeast side of my home. I wondered if I was seeing a meteor shower, but the sighting lasted about 30 seconds and was not moving as rapidly as I would expect for meteor, it also appeared to be close

I suspect that this fireball was the re-entry of the Chinese CZ-4B rocket that launched Yaogan 14 on May 10 last year. This has a NORAD catalog ID of 38259 and an international designation of 2012-021C. The latest TIP message on Spacetrack (issued at 12:16 UTC) suggests that this decayed just after crossing the equator northbound near 3degN
88.6degW on February 27 at 09:06 UTC (03:06 CST).

If it survived a little longer in orbit, then the following ground-track
should represent its motion northwards in the vicinity of Galveston:

UTC Latitude(degN) Longitude (degW)
09:08 24.7 92.8
09:09 28.8 93.7
09:10 32.9 94.6
09:11 37.0 95.6
09:12 41.1 96.8

Regards,
Alan Pickup