I am an amateur astronomer and have had multiple experiences seeing strange things in the sky. For both of the following experiences I was stargazing at around 10pm in mid-January. On the first night the skies were mostly clear with some low, fast moving clouds. There was no moon. I live near the SeaTac flight paths and multiple military bases, so I've learned how to differentiate stars and satellites from aircraft. In the sky to the southwest but over the peninsula, I saw what I initially thought was a plane due to its somewhat low altitude (2000ft or so) and the light it shone on some low clouds. I looked away to find a satellite, but when I looked back seconds later the object had not moved. There were no indicators that the object was a civilian or military aircraft, but clouds were illuminated as they passed it. It was hard to get an exact idea of distance from my vantage, but as I watched, the light turned and the object moved maybe 1000ft south in a straight line before stopping. Clouds continued to pass by, and I saw the light was directional like a headlight. The light moved as if the object was looking around, but the movements were not uniform in terms of which direction it looked, the interval between direction changes, nor how long it held in any position. It was like a person with a flashlight was looking around at clouds. After a few minutes, the object turned northeast toward me, and moved a longer distance before stopping again. I called my partner over to look with me, and we both watched this object for 10-15 minutes. The object continued this type of behavior during that time. While it was pointing its light away from us, a larger, denser cloud passed between us and blocked our view. When the cloud passed the object was gone. The light hadn't gone out, the object was fully gone. It did not return or show up anywhere in our field of vision for the next 10-15 minutes we watched for it, so we left. I have not seen activity like this object since. The second sighting was about two weeks later, but was markedly different. The skies were completely clear, with little to no wind. Jupiter was high in the sky WSW of my position, the Pleiades were near to it. I was looking at the sky between Jupiter, the Pleiades, Sirius, Rigel, and Betelgeuse when what looked like a satellite came into view from the southwest. When the object was between Sirius and Rigel it slowed and began coming in my direction. It wasn't a fast or sudden turn, it was like it was taking a corner on a winding road, and I realized the object was not a satellite. It had no indicator lights or other colors, I couldn't discern the shape of a craft, it was as if a star decided to move closer. It slowed as it approached my location, then gradually descended before stopping perhaps 2000ft in the air maybe two miles south of me. I called my partner over to look, and we both waved toward the object as we joked that it was a UFO/UAP. We often waved at low flying civilian planes, and occasionally they would notice us and fly in circles above us. But as we were waving, the object began moving in an irregular figure eight horizontally, the way a young child would wave a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Its motions were not erratic or jerking, but they were definitely not possible for any aircraft. My partner and I both exclaimed excitedly, laughing and wondering if it really was UFO/UAP. After a minute or two of this, the object slowed to a stop. We both began waving more excitedly with both arms and loudly shouting hello, that we hoped the object was having as much fun as we were. We both fell silent when the air suddenly changed and the object seemed to rush toward us. In a split second it was immediately be in front of us, less than half a mile away and 500ft up. We were frozen in shock, we couldn't tell exactly how far away the object was, but it was significantly closer than it had been. It was still just a light, but the diameter was larger and the light was much brighter. It was not an LED, HID, or bulb light, it was as the light of a star. It remained completely stationary for what could've been a minute or ten minutes, we were too stunned to look away or make a sound. Eventually the object slowly ascended as it began moving south, then curved SSW until it was out of sight. Though I have watched the sky many nights since, including the same windows of time in 2024 and 2025, I have seen nothing like this again.