Object moving through sky and atmosphere with changing lights, moving in several directionsMy husband and I were on our honeymoon near Loch Ness in Scotland. On Monday 10th December 2007 we went for a short walk at about 10.30pm, and noticed the lovely clear skies, and how bright the stars were and decided to use the binoculars we’d borrowed to sit and watch them for a while. (We live in a city, so can’t see the stars very well at home) We’d just started passing them between us, when my husband exclaimed that one star was very bright and twinkling. At the time I thought nothing of it, as it was a clear, cold, winter night, and stars can appear to shimmer in the atmosphere. We were looking over the loch as the ‘Little Bear’ constellation was becoming visible and rising over the hills. There was no moon. Weather was cold, clear and bright, no clouds in the sky.On looking through the binoculars, he could see a white glowing body of the object, with flashing red, green and blue/purple lights around the edge. Of course, we both thought at first that it was a helicopter, civilian or military plane (especially as we were in a remote location, we thought it could be the RAF testing a new/unknown craft) or even a satellite, caught up in the atmosphere, as it seemed a long way away (the colours were only visible as twinkles with the naked eye, but clearly with the binoculars) We sat passing the binoculars between us for some time, watching in puzzlement as the object moved quickly around the sky, but always in the same patch of sky (south west of the ‘little bear’ constellation) Several times (at least 3) the bright object seemed to disappear into the distance, as it became so faint, it was only possible to see it if not looking directly at it (as with a faint star) the first time this happened we thought it was travelling away from us, and that was that. But it came back into focus, clearer this time, and appeared larger (though still a white glow) there were absolutely no clouds in the sky at the time; all other objects in the sky were clear at all times.This first phase happened over about an hour. Then, as the stars gradually moved around the sky, the object appeared to stop moving of its own accord, and drift in the same direction, at this point we were wondering if it had been a satellite we were watching. But then, the object starting moving rapidly against the direction of the stars, and could be seen to be streaming white almost like a vapour trail and seemed arrow shaped (possibly due to travelling through earth's atmosphere), previous to this it had appeared oval/disc shaped it continued doing this for some time--it was reminiscent of when a kite is being flown and the flyer yanks the string to pull it in or out of the wind flow--it looked as though it was jetting out of Earth’s atmosphere to the other side.Eventually it stopped jetting in the opposite direction of the stars, as if it had got through the atmosphere and through the other side into outer space. It appeared to be moving further into the distance, and now only glowed with a pulsing light, that changed from faint violet to greenish yellow in a clockwise motion, almost as though a beam of light was emanating from the object and changing colour as it did so. The object then did not continue following the direction of the stars but remained in one position. We continued watching for some time, and it remained, glowing in the sky.We first spotted the object at about 11.00 pm and finished watching at about 2am, as were very cold by that point.