[Bender2]

Re: You may have seen a trash unit being ejected from the ISS (they fall and burn up in the atmosphere, but can move around quite a bit)...or perhaps one of the electrical experiments where the long “canvas” was eventually cut loose.

Nope, the orbit of the 'whatever' was nowhere near the Shuttle or ISS. It was a single point of light doing a jitterbug moving in a rough northeast to southwest direction that would bisect the Shuttle and ISS orbits, not parallel them.

[no-s]

Summer in central texas? probably a firefly....

I remember camping out under the starry night in central Texas before the skyglow and haze ruined it. Right before dawn it still seemed like there were a million stars and then one of them started to move - it was a satellite. I still get goosebumps remembering it. That must have been '68 or so.