I went out to lock my back door and noticed up in the north sky three flash's illuminating the clouds then I went back in to tell my wife and get the night vision goggles. We went out and I could see a pretty good light through the tree's and which I could not see with the naked eye and as I fined tuned the goggles I noticed the ball of light was greater then anything I had seen. It looked as big as the moon behind the tree's. It was overcast and the moon comes in the east and the moon is only a quarter full.Right before we lost sight of it, it seemed to move to the east then disappeared. Like it took off.