Occam's razor does nothing to help explain what I saw with my own two eyes in the summer of 1967.
What looked exactly like a falling star abruptly came to a complete and instant standstill. After several seconds, the 'falling star' took off in a completely different direction.
After traversing most of the sky, it stopped again. Once more after several seconds it took off again in another direction but this time it didn't stop, just disappeared.
In the 60’s, folks were seeing a lot of strange things.
To quote from the Matrix: (CHOI) “It’s called mescaline”.
(now don’t get all riled up - I’m just having a bit of fun... 8^)