You didn't have a few nips of the Baileys Irish Cream did you?
Or it could have been a few laser pointers?, a martian weather baloon reflecting sunlight? refraction of the lens off that telescope suspended under that european weather balloon?
Might have to work on what it could have been.
Could it actually have been a aurora tha twas "local' that was only around the middle latetudes. i did note that there was a high level alert yesterday
"A coronal mass ejection (CME) swept past Earth on June 16th at 0900 UT. The impact caused a mild geomagnetic storm, which has since subsided. Sky watchers at high latitudes should remain alert for auroras, however, because a solar wind stream trailing the CME continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field. Intermittent magnetic storming is possible tonight. "