Star dancing UFO

My mother and I were going to pick up my sister who was at a friend's house.  We had to take this road that was out in the country so it was very dark. (no light pollution) I was looking out the window up at the stars when I saw this cigar shaped object come from the moon. It was very bright and it traveled from the moon to a star and then stopped for a few moments. It then started again and went to another star and stopped.  At this point I was quite excited and convinced my mother to stop the car at which point she and I got out and proceeded to watch this thing. Much to our surprise, another object shot out from the moon and proceeded to do the same thing except going in the opposite direction.  We continued to watch these two objects do their star stop and go for aprox. 20 to 30 min. until they finally faded out of sight.
My mother is now 82 and I'm 45 and we both still remember this incident as if it just happened.  She asks me every now and then if I remember that night and I say absolutely.
Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.  PD