I am an ex-militery pilot and know what an aircraft at high altitude on a clear night looks like. i also know what flares look like when viewed from a distance. what i saw when going out on the driveway of my house at approx. 8:00pm central time (dark and cloudless sky with full moon) looked like two very bright stars next to each other and stationary in the sky. these starlike objects were a good bit brighter than venus. i obviously have never seen 2 stars that were this bright and postioned right next to each other. these objects were not blinking or changing color from there white star-like appearance. i vewed them for about one minute. after 1 full minute, both stars started to dim slowly untill i could not see them anymore. from the time they were at full brightness untill they could not be seen anymore took about 30 seconds. while they were dimming, they remained in there same position in the sky ... i have never in my life seen anything like this before. these 2 objects looked to be in outerspace (such as you would see a star or venus) ... in my opinion, they were not at an lower altitude where any aircraft would be. i feel so lucky that for the first time in my life (i am now 69 years old), that i have seen something that i am convinced is not anything from that can be explained as natural or manmade. i did not have a camera or a cell phone on my person, so unfortunatly i have no photos or video .... ron larson