Blurry blob of light streaking through sky above a cloud

Last night I was outside at approximately 23:30.  I was on the west side of my house between my house and my neighbor’s house.  I was walking northward towards my back yard.  There were a few low clouds that were mostly transparent.  I saw a streak of light traveling from east to west above one of the clouds.  Because I saw it through the cloud, it was kind of blurry.  It was traveling very fast, and it only lasted a few seconds before it flew out of site behind my neighbor’s house.  My first thought is that it was a meteor.  However, I watched a meteor shower several weeks ago, and this “streak” traveled a longer distance than the meteors I’ve seen.  It was also traveling the opposite direction of the meteors I saw a few weeks ago.  (I admit that I don’t know much about meteors, and I assume they can travel in any direction.)  However, this streak didn’t look as long as the meteors I saw and it lasted longer.  My next thought is that it was a spotlight, but! I searched the horizons, and I didn’t see any spotlights shining up and moving around.  My last explanation was that it could have been some light refracting through the corner of my glasses lenses, and it created some sort of optical illusion.  However, there were no cars driving by or any other moving source of light that could have caused that.  Also, since I’ve worn glasses for years, I can say that I have never experienced an optical illusion of a light in a cloud due to refracted light though my glasses.  It was too fast to be a plane, plus there was no noise.  It was most likely a meteor, but it didn’t look or behave like the meteors I’ve seen.  But I admit that may be because my sight of it was distorted though the low thin cloud.  I would say that the chances of this being some sort of ET craft is very low, but since I couldn’t positively identify it, it was a mystery to me, and therefore, a UFO.  I just wanted to report it so that there would be record of it in c! ase someone else saw something, too.