The thing with telescopes is that I've noticed people often spend heaps of time looking at one tiny patch of sky, but not so much at the whole sky!
During my recent comet chasing in really dark skies, I just set the camera to shoot away on its own with wide angle lenses and decided not to set up my telescope at all. I just say and watched the sky for hours with dark adapted naked eyes.
After several nights out, I'd say that I spotted over 50 satellites - usually one every few minutes, especially around dusk/dawn. It's amazing they don't collide up there... virtually every long exposure wide angle photo I have has a satellite trail somewhere.
I also spotted about 10-20 meteors per night. I assume they were meteors because of both how fast they travel - equivalent to crossing the whole sky in a second or two - and how bright they are (much brighter than I've ever seen the ISS).
Some meteors I've seen have been spectacular - a huge bright streak over about 150 degrees of the sky in about a second. The brightest one I've ever seen lit up Salt Lake City, Utah as if it were daytime... check out
this security camera video of it. I've also seen a couple light up parts of the Brisbane sky as if it were lightning