Colored Orbs in Night Sky

Let me first put a disclaimer here..I do not nor have I ever worn a tin foil hat. Hubby reads this forum and I have started to also..
Last night, my hubby showed me two objects in the sky, one about 30 degrees Northeast of the Big Dipper, and the other about 40 degrees Northwest. We used the digital camera and were able to take a few pictures, couldn't get a clear view with binoculars, but brought the .22 out with the scope and that worked well to see through. What I could see was a kind of glowing orb, flashing colors red, blue, green. We watched these for 2 hours. He said one he had watched for a week. There was no movement except as time progressed, with one moving progressively towards the west, and the other rising higher in east. Could these be satelites?
This was from approximately 8:30 to 10:30pm. If anyone has seen these or knows what they are..please comment?

[warngen]

i see them too..they are planets..
planets twinkle different colors in the sky as well as the north star..
as you have said yourself..they move over time..do they move RELATIVE to the other stars..or do they move in sync with the stars??

they did not move per say, by themselves, but as with earths rotation I am guessing. they were flashing different colors which we could see with the naked eye (glasses on).
why would planets do this and what planets might they have been? thanks for replying, i'm perplexed. hubby did get a few pics which when blown up could possibly be a satelite?

ok..found website that says stars twinkle, plantes don't. and when the atmosphereic air is unsteady, the stars will seem to flash different colors like red, blue, green. it is the atmosphere effect. very interesting!

[Orion11]

yep, Planets or Stars.
One of them is Sirius.
they do seem to be getting brighter and more colorful each year though.

[whitecrow]

I remember this coming up in another thread, too. Stars twinkle but planets' light is steady. Planets also have colors that are more or less distinct from one another. Stars do too, but it's not as easy to see with the naked eye.

When stars rise in the east, their light comes to us obliquely through the atmosphere. Dust and water droplets get in the way more at this time than they do when the star is overhead and its light comes straight down at us. This is why they appear to twinkle different colors when they are low in the sky.

Planets also move relative to the other stars - not while we watch, but from night to night. Recently Jupiter has been rather spectacular close to the waxing moon, but now it is moving away. Mars has a distinctly reddish color, and in recent years has been close enough to the earth to rival Venus in brightness. It too is now moving away from us.

There are so many satellites up there, you can see many on any clear night. Many if not most UFO sightings are probably satellites. Some, though, are not so easily explained, and it seems those sightings have been increasing in recent years. Who knows what people are really seeing...I still haven't seen an explanation that I'm willing to put all my money into.