It was too close and it LOOKED LIKE A ROCK.
I have seen satellites on very clear nights and they always sort of flash or are just real bright in the night sky.
This was a very fast moving LARGE object very close to the edge of the atmosphere and it sort of wobbled as it moved across the sky as if rotating.
No. It wasn't a satellite.
I’ll have to take you at your word. But if you want to understand my skepticism, do the math. If your eye was able to resolve it as “a rock”, and it wasn’t flaming (not experiencing atmospheric friction), that sets a minimum distance and thus a minimum size for the object - a pretty LARGE size not to make the papers and set off air defense radars.
I am not saying that you are making this up, but what you are explaining is physically impossible.
It sounds perfectly reasonable, and thanks for sharing that story. In the summer of 2002, during an outdoor break at work, I saw a chunk of space rock coming in. It was very large, tumbling, and apparently in the process of coming apart as it entered the atmosphere. A coworker had been watching it for at least a few seconds, and then called my attention to it. I watched it for perhaps another five seconds, then it passed behind some tall trees. I have no idea how high it was (I heard no noise), how large it was, whether it wound up skipping off the atmosphere after all, or if the shattered pieces fell to Earth over a wide area.