Stepped outside to watch the Leonid meteor shower for a while this morning, I was staring straight up towards the radiant in the constellation Leo. Around 5:35am I saw movement out of the corner of my eye to the SouthWest. Glanced over to my right and saw a fast moving object lightly orange like metal starting to get hot but not bright, moving Southwest to South in direction away from the constellation of Orion. I thought...we'll thats not a Leonid meteor and did a double take because it never flared up or fireballed like I was seeing, plus it was moving in the wrong direction than the meteors I was observing. So I continued to watch it move and realised that it had shape, like a grey mass, spherical or oval but not quite defined. I thought maybe it was an owl, but it was visibly orange hot looking on the bottom edge. That was the light that caught my eye. Then it stopped dead still in the sky, thats when the hair on my neck stood up and I really paid attention. It stopped, then made an immediate change in direction due South for a good second or so, then stopped again, changed direction and moved East, stopped a third time and then just accelerated incredibly fast South out of sight. If it was an owl, it had a glowing hot rear end. Pretty incredible sighting. A first for me and I'm an amature astomomer, I am always out looking up at the night sky. I attached a rough sketch of what I remember it looking like.