The worst one I've ever done was when a friend of mine pointed out three evenly bright pinpoint lights in an almost equilateral formation he saw moving overhead through a large hole in the almost complete cloud cover.
I was trying to convince my friend that they were way too high to be spy planes as he suggested, and were probably satellites, but the formation still seemed too close.
That was when I realised they were "fixed" stars and the cloud was moving in front of them, making them appear to move. Doh!
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