Always nice to see new commenters on the site. Welcome!

In your case the MIBs might be Military In Black. More UFOs covering up experimental aircraft, perhaps.

You’re right about the moon, but clouds aren’t round, don’t move at high speeds (if Joe was watching the same thing after coming back outside)and don’t have multicolored flashing lights.

The description of shadows is too vague, but it sounds like a cloud.

I guess NASA wins this round.

Perhaps Steve’s memory is wrong, but the fact you may not have had your glasses on may mitigate this somewhat, but it may also partially explain the “strange objects parked in orbit” subject: Perhaps the anomalous thingies are a result of poor optics in the telescope that guy is using.

He said that he was so amazed that he didn’t think about his camera until it was too late.

I read about Strieber’s sighting. Sort of reminds me of Terence McKenna’s South American sighting of an Adamski-type craft. He theorized that something was playing a cosmic joke on him.

Here’s a description from the NASA website:

A typical sighting looks like this: A dim speck of light–the space station–appears near the horizon. It brightens rapidly as it glides overhead, leisurely crossing the sky in 3 to 6 minutes. You can’t see details like solar panels with the unaided eye, but the station is nevertheless beautiful. At its best, it can outshine every star and planet except the sun and moon. More often it looks like an ordinary bright star–eye-catching because it moves.

However, I’d trust you before NASA any day. If you see it like this again, try and get a picture.