For info: I live on a farm in the countryside about 20 km from the next bigger city. No light around means you can see the stars pretty good. I woke up around 5:30 this morning but stayed in bed checking my phone. I look out of my window facing east and notice a bright star in the sky. First I thought it was a plane but it was stationary and didn’t have any blinking lights. Venus can be very bright sometimes. I stare at it for about 2 minutes thinking about what it could be when it suddenly starts to move to the left from my viewpoint and to the north if you’d look at it on a map. Not fast but steady. At that moment I can’t tell how far it is away as it’s only a light on the horizon. It’s a white light with a bit of yellow, not a cold/blue white.
I go to my dormer window that faces north and start taking a video with my phone. Unfortunately it’s pitch black and the light doesn’t appear on the screen so I switch to photo mode. About one minute has passed since it started. It started east from my viewpoint and is now north east. It’s btw a completely clear night sky without any clouds. Then something strange happens. In front of the moving light forms a ring. First small and close to the light than bigger and a bit further away. It looks like light projected onto fog. The ring continues to grow and then both ring and light kinda dissipate. It looks like both move into a fog and the light becomes dimmer and more blurry. It’s really hard to see on the pictures so I’ll make a drawing to show it better. Because I could see the ring clearly it seems that the light was not that far away perhaps 600-700 meters and 150 meters above the ground.
The whole ring thing and the disappearance took about 45 seconds. I took the first picture at 05:43:18 the small ring had just formed 6-7 seconds before. Pic 2 was taken 05:43:20, pic 3 at 05:43:34 and pic 4 as light and ring had nearly disappeared at 05:43:52. I’m wtf just happened. I sit on my bed looking at the video and the pictures for 3-4 minutes. I stare out of the eastern window when I notice a light coming in from the left (so opposite direction of the first light). It’s a bit lower on the horizon than the first on. The light is a bit dimmer than the first one and more orange. I look at it for about 4-5 seconds while it still moves left to right horizontally when it starts to grow brighter. Over the next 2 seconds it goes from dim to a bright orange. Not linear more exponentially. 1.5 seconds slowly brighter and the last 0.5 seconds really bright. Then it goes dark within 0.1 seconds. I’m not sure if I have seen this correctly but I thought it went straight up after it had become dark.
Pic 1 you can see the ring in the early stage. It stayed that way for 8-10 seconds before it started to grow. Pic 2 the ring is already growing. Pic 3 is probably the ring at it’s biggest and dimmest. (I tried to paint how it looked). After pic 3 it started to dissipate and pic 4 is only a weak glow before it went dark after 5 seconds or so. The second light happened so fast I couldn't snap a pic.