I was laying on back of family pickup alone looking at night sky and stars and noticed one of the stars was moving on a straight path going northwest and I thought it was the space shuttle chugging along but suddenly the star like object made sudden turn towards the south and I know nothing can just turn without stopping and certainly the space shuttle could not do that. I was ecstatic but told no one not even my family for fear of being called crazy. I kept this secret until now. I followed the object in the night sky until it disappeard into the horizon.