I was leaving home to go to the local college for a theatre production I was cast in. When I stepped outside I looked into the sky and thought "what a bright star, must be a planet", but something was off about it. It was bright yellow with a hot white center and it didn't twinkle, but rather it pulsates ever so slightly. I was completely in awe of it. There was indeed an airplane in the sky, but this light did not come from the commercial airliner I saw. I didn't see the plane until after the light had vanished. It was in the sky to the west. It was very bright and lighting the neighborhood up slightly even though it appeared to be very far away. After vanishing I saw a commercial airplane in the sky where it had been, but then it was in the south sky and the airplane was still off to the west. I tried very hard to explain it away like maybe it was ball lightning, but the research I did on that just doesn't add up to what I witnessed at all. I've seen spacecraftsbefore. I'm a septic of all things, an atheist even, but I know there are beings out there. I've seen it too many times. The evidence is right in front of me, I can't ignore what is physically there. I saw a chrome like spacecraft once and my wife was with me and she saw it too, it got very close to the top of our car on a country road. I feel like I'm being watched. I'm really not paranoid, this is something that's happening to me and until now, I've never reported it for fear of being called a lunatic.