in the backyard. I looked up and saw what I thought was a falling star. It came to a stop and hovered. Then it moved again. Then we noticed approximately 12-15 of these objects ( which looked like stars) moving across the sky. We watched them for about two hours.

It was mid-may, 1979.  I was in the backyard with my family, and I looked up to the sky.  I saw what appeared to be a falling star (meteor or meteorite) but contrary to the typical behavior of falling stars, this one came to a stop, and hovered.  It looked just like a star.  Then, to my surprise, another "point of light" moved across the path of the first object.  Altogether, my family and I watched 12-15 of these objects move around in the sky for approximately 2 hours.  We called my Aunt, who lived a couple of miles away, and told her to go outside and watch them.  She went outside, but was unable to see anything other than the normal night sky.  We called the police non-emergency number, and they said it was probably fireworks or airplanes. Please note: These objects were extremely high  in altitude and made no noise.  There were too many of them for them to be satellites. Later that summer, my mother was describing the incident to an old family friend ( a lutheran minister)  who lived in WIsconsin.  He told my mother that on that night he had been fishing on a lake in Wisconsin, and he had seen THE EXACT SAME THING.