sbeaudry said:
Anywho, I saw a similarly bright object in a similar position in the night sky last night, although it was not behaving erratically at all as far as I could see. I'm wondering if it could have been Venus [...]
I had the same thoughts last night. If it was Venus, one clue about why it may have appeared the way it did that night was that the sunset had been really red, which could mean there was a lot of stuff in the atmosphere that caused some unique refractory effects. I think that's probably the best explanation, although I'm also still puzzled about it looking like two objects at one point and that it appeared to move in various directions (whereas the same object last night was completely motionless), but there might be an explanation for those effects as well if there was something unusual going on in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, it's interesting that it happened at the same time you were wondering about getting a sign from the universe about relocation.
