EXPERIENCE ONE: mid 90s I was drinking at a beach in Chicago at night with two friends. At some point we were laying on our backs and looking up and I spotted something odd. It was a glowing orb that was changing colors: orange, red, white, then black. It was at satellite 🛰 height amongst the stars. It moved from the southern part of the sky to the northern part 10x faster than an airplane would at max altitude. Then it changed direction and took a new line, so for sure this was not a satellite, then changed direction again, then again, and again. All three of us saw it and we must have watched it for over 40 minutes. Each sprint/directional line it took lasted about 5-10 minutes.
EXPERIENCE TWO: I was on vacation in Phoenix with friends just before Y2K, we were driving to a mountain in the middle of town to hike and libate. As I was driving, there was this object hovering over the street, broad daylight, probably 200 feet above. It looked like a black Tetris piece that was constantly rotating and changing shapes. I was with my brother and a friend. We stopped, got out, and just stared in disbelief for a few minutes. We decided to get back in the car and keep moving since we had weed in the car, we were basically just stopped in the street. Three blocks later we reached the mountain but had lost sight of the object. We hiked up to a isolated vantage point for 20 minutes. When we reached the spot there was a sheriff helicopter and a Cessna circling the area for a while, we never saw the object again. Years later, I saw a video on a ufo show with the same style object.