Based on her description, this is certainly not a planetary phenomena. Both of my sightings were near technological sites. Both at night, the first shooting down from the sky like twin comets but with much larger tails over a nuclear power plant in construction (Seabrook), flashing towards me and over my head, then vanishing out over the nearby ocean. The second, a tic-toc like event with several lights appearing and disappearing in the distance for 20 or so minutes near the site of the National Security Agency's site in Bluffdale, Utah. This was confirmed by police who I called that night (at 3 am).