As a young man, I would lay out in the yard at night and look at the sky--I often saw an object moving at night speed, very high, no noise, moving from north to south, right along the coast. I saw this often, as in several times. It was a steady light (smallish in size)--didn't move fast enough for a shooting star, but was steady--before Sputnik!

As I stated above, the object was like a high flying airplane that you would see nowdays, except the entirety of it was lighted.  I lived on the Alamitos Bay Penninsula, just south of Long Beach, California.  The objects were always by themselves and always moved from the north to the south--you see a shooting star for a second or two and then it disappears--these went from horizon to horizon--never at any set time, but I could always count on seeing them late at night--my binoculars 7X50 didn't do anything to enhance what I was seeing--I could see only the light, which was whitish in color.  That is about it.  I don't need to be called, but if anyone wanted to discuss it further, I would be happy to.