We've just seen a large orange light move over my house at a fairly reasonable spead, it was flickering, so it wouldn't indicate that it was a plane. However, the light did dim as the object passed over which indicates to me it was something electronic. I know the North-american Aerospace Defence (NorAD) have a Santa tracker which would be my guess, but can you actually see the satellite? It was much larger than the ISS! Your thoughts would be appreciated as it's bewildering my family! For now, yes, I have seen a UFO :-)|||NORAD has surface (earthbound) radar locations for tracking space objects. Some satellites do that too, but not with the precision of the radar screens and computers. Most satellites look for rocket launches, aircraft, and activities on the ground.
NORAD and the USAF every year gives a bit of Xmas fluff to the news outlets about "tracking an object on Xmas eve that may be Santa Claus". You can see this on a lot of news and weather reports on TV. This activity is for public relations only.
There are no tracking satellites that you can see with your naked eye. Don't you think that enemies of the US and Canada (members of NORAD) would be able to schedule unfriendly activities around passages of "tracking satellites" that they could see by eye?
An object moving fairly rapidly across the sky and dimming out as it went into earth's shadow was a large satellite. www.heavens-above.com will give you passages of naked eye satellites over your location for any time you enter. The orange color could have been reflections of sun off solar panels. A big bright one could have been the ISS (space station).|||Should have gone to specsavers.|||Best site on the net is heavens above, they can answer your Q:
http://www.heavens-above.com/
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