Falling "Star" Flies Through Sky - Two Witnesses in Texas

February 1, 2020 Update:
A similar "UFO" may have been seen on December 23rd in Lipon, Texas, north of this sighting. Could the UFOs be related?

Original story

• When: November 30th, 2019
  
• Where: Belton/Temple, Texas area around 8 PM
  
• What: Meteor-like object that stops to hover and then flies around

A really fascinating account of a star-like object that "suddenly" started falling from the sky and then stopped and turned directions before continuing to fly, has been reported to MUFON (case 105020). According to the witness, another person also saw the same UFO and shared a photo of it on Facebook. Check out the witness' testimony and the purported photo below:

https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/105020_submitter_file1__ufo.png

Zoomed in

round object surrounded by 8 blinking exterior lights

I went outside to smoke a cigarette, when i noticed a star that i had never seen before and suddenly behind this star an orange tube began to form as the star came down from the sky at an angle headed right towards my neighborhood from the north east direction. Then it suddenly stopped going down and headed horizontal, level flight for about 2 seconds and it started the angled flight again, headed towards the ground for 1 or 2 seconds and then it stopped, then the orange tube disappeared and the star became a black circle surrounded by 8 flashing white lights, the black cirlcle was much darker black than the night sky and the lights were bright and I could see it in perfect focus, i watched it for at least 2 minutes as it slowly slowly moved across the night sky headed southwest just 100 feet or so above the ground, as it flew over my house I thought of my camera and ran inside and came out and was so excited that I could not get my camera on video record, I thought I was recording but I pushed the wrong button, it traveled past my house, so i ran into the front yard and watched it go out of sight to the southwest.
two weeks later my friend said her friend got a picture of it and it is exactly what I saw.
I am amazed

What do you think was observed over Texas in late November? Was it a mistaken meteor? There was a "fireball" in Texas reported the same night to AMSMeteors.org, but that event occurred fairly far away in North Texas. Perhaps they were both late arrivals of the November Orionids meteor shower.

Or maybe aliens are visiting...

Let me know what you think, as always, in the comments below, or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! And if you also saw this UFO, help crack this case and report your sighting.