My feeling now is that whatever I saw has been seen by others.  Hence the official explanation.  Only, what I saw was displaying itself in a different way to the video I have shown in the comment above, as it was much more interesting than just a straight line.  Am up early again today and unlike yesterday there are no clouds.  Wow, the stars are beautiful :) 

Interesting to learn about the cats.  This village is full of them.  Including my own! So I will keep an eye out for their reactions in future.