2000-11-19 - Jamestown, TN - Light

I've watched the skies for several years and have never seen any lights do what these 3 did.

I was outside making sure my animals were put up for the night, and I had just let my dog out. She had twisted her chain up so as I got that straightened out I was looking at the stars. I'm familure with the planets and with how airplanes look as they pass over. I saw nothing unusual until I looked toward the north. There I saw a bright light come on. It grew in brightness until at one point it was brighter than the planet jupiter. It only tooks a few seconds to grow in brightness, then it went out. The total time the light was on was about 8 seconds. When it went out I could barely make out a small light that was dimmer than a very distant star and much smaller than an airplane. I watched it travel for a few seconds when another light, just like the first, came on in front of it. It did the same with the light coming on then going out. I watched them take turns doing this with several seconds in between the time one light would go bright. When the two were dim they didn't have any blinking lights on them at all that I could see. When they were nearly out of my view I saw another light, the same as the first two, come on go out but it was going in the opposite direction. I watched it do that for several times then went to get my husband. When he came out none were to be seen, even though the 3rd light should have been visible. We watched and saw no lights, not even those of planes. The first two were coming from a south-east direction going north-west while the 3rd was taking the same path only in the opposite direction.