The ORB on Friday Night

On Friday night, March 1, these guys had a skywatch. This was an chance to look through the super-nice, epa-mega-expensive night vision equipment and see the the stats.  Open Minds has this ATV with a binocular-type telescope on the back.  One scope is infrared and the other is optical.  I'm not sure of the focal length or magnification power but it looked to be pretty powerful.  The scopes were attached to a remote control pad and a computer monitor.  It's a very nice thing to have.  John Rao was the person controlling the scope. 

The night vision devices were pretty cool but I slowly made my way over to the Open Minds "ATV". John Rao had accidentally pointed towards an object that I must say was quite strange.  It looked like a spinning, round honeycomb-shape(like the cereal) that was moving quickly through the sky.  At certain points, it would spin down into a fan shape and then spin down into a point.  Then, it would spin back up to it's original shape and do the same thing over again.

In my two years since I started doing amateur astronomy, I must say that I have never seen anything quite like this.   And for those who casually brushed it off as an out-of-focus view of Sirius, you missed something unique.
 
There are a couple of things that I would like to make clear about this.
#1.  It was NOT a geo-sychrnous object.  John was not having to move the scope to keep up with the rotation of the Earth (ONLY).  If you point a scope at Sirius, which does NOT move through sky on its own, you will get an idea of the rotation of the Earth since Sirius is fixed.  John was having to re-adjust the scope to catch back up with the object every 30-45 seconds or so. This is more or less the same as the speed of the moon.  I do understand that if the magnification is greta enough that you would also have to adjust more frequently but this was not the case.  This object definitely moving, not fixed or "geo-synchronous".
#2. This object was also NOT Sirius the star.  It's funny because I heard a few people say that they dreamed of what the trees would be like on Sirius.  It's a star, not a planet.  I'm not laughing AT these people simply thought it was funny.  I know everyone has a learning curve. I put a green laser light on top of the scope to see the general direction of where it was pointed in the night sky and it was WAY OFF from Sirius.  It wasn't FAR but it most certainly was not in the same area.

With this, I've never seen anything similar in the night or in my life. I'm not saying it was alien, I'm just saying that it's unique and I would love to know what it may have been if anyone knows.  I'm posting the video here.  In the video, it's a bit difficult to see the details of the object itself but you CAN see how it changes shape.  That's amazing to me!
You be the judge.