My anti-climactical possible UFO sighting

[Kal'Narred]

For years I have been hoping to experience a UFO, but the closest I came was always some very exciting dreams. But last week I saw something that I can't quite explain. I was out walking the dog late evening when I saw a light in the sky moving (from my perspective) from right to left at a steady pace. Thinking it was an aeroplane a focused in on it to se if I could make out the flashing wing lights. The light started to fade and I thought it was my proximity to a streetlight that was obscuring it, so I backed away from the streetlight and the object continued to fade and quickly disappeared.

There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the stars were bright. I even hung around staring at the area of the sky to see if it had gone behind a cloud I couldn't see, but the object never reappeared. It could have been a meteor, but it wasn't like any meteor I ever saw, this was bright white with maybe a hint of blue in it, it had no trail and it seemed to be moving parallel to the horizon (maybe even in orbit).

Can anyone shed some light on what it might have been? The only rational possibility I can think of is that someone forgot to put a coin in the meter of the international space station.

Any comments are welcom

[Kal'Narred]

If it was the space station how could it dissapear in a cloudless sky?

[Ullan]

Last week in Manchester? In other words, close to the sudden and mysterious radar blackout that affected the area and south of Scotland?

[Bishop]

it may have been a sighting of a craft high up, but who knows.

I had a strange sighting myself last week. it was about 10pm in Manchester with a clear sky and stars out. I live near an airport so i see planes all the time, but on this occasion i saw a single bright light the seemed to move away from us and over the horizon out of sight. It looked like a bright star, white, and not at all flashing. it moved slowly and in a slightly wavy line, its travel was not straight. I thought perhaps it could be a Chinese lantern with the way it moved, but it seemed too white and bright to be that, and as it was moving irregularly and not flashing im sure it wasnt an air craft.
Keep your eyes on the skies!