2005-08-06 - Lexington, TX - Unknown

The object made erratic movements.

I got up before daylight to watch for the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Space Station that were to be possibly visable in the NW sky at 05:50. There were no clouds in the sky and the stars and what I assumed to be Mars were quite visable as I live way out in the country with no city lights. I never saw the Space Shuttle but continued to look and look. Then I saw a very small "star-looking" object that stayed basically in the same location way overhead, almost straight overhead, but slightly west. It moved in an isolated area making circles and less that 45 degree turns and weaved back and forth. It could not have been a helicopter because they are unable to move like that. This object appeared as a faint star with no flashing lights. There was what appeared to be a regular airplane closer and to the NW that seemed oblivious to the object I saw. The airplane seemed close, the "object" seemed like a far away star by comparison. I was reminded, by it's movements, of a paramecium under a microscope, the way one would randomly move about making strange, almost frantic movements. I would step away and change my angle of veiw to see if it were something close, a moth perhaps, or a bat or bird, but no, it was way up there. It never left it's limited area of movement. I watched it until daylight and I could no longer see it.