To see or not to see?

About eight years ago, at about 11 o'clock at night, I was taking the dogs around the garden for a walk. It was a beautiful, warm summer's or summers or summer night, no clouds, lots of stars, so I stopped and stared for a while at this wonderful sky. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something moving high up in the sky. I turned my head and tried to find the movement again. There it was. Three stars turned around each other, in sort of figures of eight and then circles and then whoosh....went away from each other at great speed, coming back again and turning these figures around each other again. These could not be stars. Stars did not move like that. But I could not believe they were planes either. Planes tend to move from A to B, without doing circuslike tricks in the middle of the night. And they moved to fast to be planes. I had never seen something like it. Could it be that I actually witnessed some UFO-action? After a while my neck began to hurt, so I stopped staring, called the dogs and walked home. "Would you believe me", I asked hubs, "if I told you I just saw some UFO's?" Hubs frowned, smiled and shook his head. "UFO's? No." So, that was that. Occasionally I will tell someone that I think I've seen UFO's, I mean I know they were UFO's to me, because they were Unidentified Flying Objects. But were they of the extraterrestrial kind? No, that's hard to believe. Or is it? Is it not just a tiny bit arrogant of us people to think that we are the only ones in the entire universe? I've heard that the universe is BIG. Could there not be a planet somewhere....? Well, I don't know. Anyway. A couple of weeks ago our farrier was here. A very down to earth guy. I don't know anymore how we came to talk about this, but I mentioned that I had seen UFO's (hahaha) about 8 years ago and pointed towards the direction I had seen them in. He stopped what he was doing, his eyes went a bit bigger: "How long ago was this?" "About 8 years ago", I said. "What time?" "About 11 o'clock at night." "I've seen them too. There were three of them. Very high up in the sky, moving at great speed and turning circles around each other." I was stunned. So was he. "I've told some people immediately afterwards, but they said I had probably seen the laserlights of a club in that area. But I thought they were far too high up in the sky and they didn't seem like lasers to me", he said. "No, can't believe that either. Then you would have seen the beam too I think", I agreed. "I've seen laserlights from other clubs, but these looked very different. And I have never seen them again. Would they not be there every night, or at least in the weekends?" "We will never know", the farrier said. "No, probably not." After that conversation I went on the internet to try and find out if there was any information about UFO's in our area and if someone else had maybe seen the ones we had seen. Turns out that there are lots of sightings near our house, but in the opposite direction from where we had seen 'our' UFO's. There even is a UFO-informationpoint in a village nearby. That gave me the giggles actually. I immediately imagined a guy in his forties, still living with his mother, wearing a big-patterned-sweater she lovingly knitted, big heavy glasses, sitting in his bedroom, orange/brown striped seventies curtains, single bed, ET-posters on the wall, anxiously waiting by the telephone to enter all UFO-sightings in his computerdatabase. Ah well, you know the type. Maybe you even are the type and I hasten to say there is probably nothing wrong with you. I wonder, have you seen something unexplainable in the sky? Have you ever seen a UFO? Extraterrestrial or not? (update: I added some pictures I found on the internet, just for fun)