Strange object overhead Willerby

[pug]

Was sat in my garden about 20 minutes ago and heard a turboprop in the area, not unusual as T3 tend to pass overhead on their HUY-ABZ and visa versa. Whilst looking for the aircraft I noticed a bright dot travelling overhead at speed (thought it may have been a Tucano at altitude at first hence the noise). however it must have been high as it passed over one of the few clouds in the sky. As it had passed the cloud the object sped up considerably and then seemed to shoot off and vanish.

Anyway I was wondering if it could have been a satellite (though during the night they tend to appear at a constant speed across the sky when looking from the naked eye). Is it possible to view a satellite during the day? Could the light conditions during the day give the impression that an object is speeding up rapidly before it dissappears? Also what would a shooting star look like during the day?

[elmfield]

I have been meaning to add to this for months...I was taught to walk with my 'head in the air' and, over the years, I have witnessed a few aerial events which were difficult to give a rational answer. The most spectacular was an orange shaped and coloured object which travelled alongside our car for a couple of miles at an altitude of I imagine just a few 00 ft and then, at a fantastic speed, went vertically in the sky and promptly vanished...The local newspaper reported a few other peple that same evening witnessing something very similar.

[huytiger]

In the mid eighties I saw what looked like a silver coloured oval shape in the sky roughly above the Ottringham beacon. Its edge appeared to have a meniscus round it, almost as though you could only see a part of whatever it was dipping into our sky. Difficult to say what size it was, but it looked very high up. I shot inside from the garden to get a pair of binoculars, and of course when I came back out it had gone.