No idea what that row of lights are, but when we see a shooting star, that's an angel running an errand for God - that's what we were told as kids and has been satisfactory for me ever since lol.

 The sun moves above the earth, from east to west, on a daily basis.  Because it's smaller, it does not give light in all directions, but is more focused, like a spotlight.  Thus when it's spotlight turns, and as it physically moves away from us, it has the appearance of "setting".

Supposedly they reflect the light of the sun.  I've never seen them, but there is video of them traveling in tandem, like a train going through the sky:



Light such as this being 200-300 miles away isn't so outlandish.  The red blinking lights you see on TV towers, which can be 2000 feet tall, are about the size of a shoebox (albeit with internal illumination) and can easily be seen at night 10 or more miles away, if you have a straight shot from your location to the transmitter.  An office desk is several times larger than one of these lights (think office desk versus shoebox).

There's numerous reasons why these satellite lights could go off.  If you could see them, that means they were low enough in the atmosphere for planes to fly.  So the lights might have to be on, for plane safety reasons.  Once the satellites rose higher than airplane traffic, the lights weren't needed anymore, so they shut off.

It is just that I am trying to determine what I am seeing in the night sky.  I am a visual person.  I know what the solar system model is for heliocentric and geocentric.  I cannot visualize what the solar system model is for a flat earth.  I have tried to ask for a model representation of a flat earth, because I don't have time to try and figure out how to find one, but It seems that I can't get the people on here to show me one either.  I am sorry if I am not being clear, but all I want is to see a model of this flat earth with the sections of atmosphere, planets, and space. 

And when it gets all the way west, how does it get back east again?

Works for me.

Seriously, though, I do believe that the "Star of Bethlehem" was not some natural phenomenon as various rationalists try to make it out to be.  We read that the Wise Men could use the star to locate precisely the place where Our Lord had been born, the very manger.  There's no way a normal "star" could be used to pinpoint a location that exactly.  I believe they were following some angelic vision.  Recall that the term "star" did not have the connotations back then of "a huge sun millions of miles away", but was merely a term for a "lesser light" (vs. the sun or the moon).