Editor’s note: I post this because last night AND tonight (August 5 and 6) at 11:45pm, PST, I saw this same/similar object in the NNE skies rising/heading EAST. It appeared to fade a bit before brightening up again – a pattern that continued the 10 minutes or so I watched it. I checked online to see if it was possibly a planet but quickly learned none of the visible planets this time of year are in this location. Also of interest: given the earth rotates counter-clockwise, objects appear to we humans (on both hemispheres) as moving east to west. This thing I am seeing the last two nights? Moving NNE.