Earth grazer appearance?

Well, not to start another UFO thread, but a colleague of mine who lives
in the country, and who knows a bit of astro stuff, saw what sounded at
first like an Iridium flare (object growing brighter, almost seeming to
come towards them) but then as it faded it moved in a different
direction.

The overall movement pattern was that of a somewhat shallow V.

It was evening during the week of the Perseids. What does an earth
grazing meteor look like?

Or perhaps it was two objects just happening to have intersecting
trajectories-- say an Iridium flare followed by an ISS or other transit?

This remains a UFO (and this one was moving) until identified.

Larry Stedman
Vestal