They're both very relatable. My UFO story is far less dramatic but.

I was watching the stars while camping once, just idly while walking to the toilet block to go brush my teeth. My eyes started following a satellite, which are immediately noticeable because they follow predictable paths across the night sky. Suddenly, the satellite I was following turned on a dime and reversed, roughly 170 degrees off its original course and then rapidly accelerated away until it was too fast to follow. It didn't decelerate or visibly 'turn', it just bounced like someone hit it with a baseball bat. I just kinda stood there for a moment, wondering what I'd seen. My brother was nearby and I thought of asking him, it was only a year ago but I don't remember if he saw it too and commented or not.

I guess what could have happened is that the course of the satellite intersected perfectly with that of a shooting star of equivalent brightness, shooting in the opposite direction. I'm not smart enough to know if shooting stars accelerate like that though.