I'm actually a little shaken up as I write this. I was outside in my front yard with the 6" newtonian, showing my daughter and her boyfriend the orion nebula and the moon (as well as an excuse to try out the 9 nagler Debbie sold me last week :). We were standing there talking about the night sky, when my daughter, looking toward the big dipper, shouted, "oh my gosh, what is that?!" I quickly looked up, and saw something very strange. It looked like a "V" shaped object, faint and shimmery, dotted with 6? faint lights, moving ESE. I (you didn't hear me say this) had my laser in my hand, and hit it with the laser, and said, "you mean that?", No reflection, so it was some distance up, rather large, and it was moving faster than any aircraft I know of, and completely silent -- absolutely no engine noise. Way too fast angular momentum to be a conventional aircraft (and the fact that the laser didn't light it up, meant it wasn't an owl or something close flying over my house). I've never seen anything like it. It was about 9:30 p.m. Thoughts...?