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NSA or other spy agency geostationary satellite? Are those type of satellites even visible during the day? Apparently not: they are too small to reflect enough sunlight:
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3227/are-any-geosynchronous-satellites-visible-with-the-naked-eye
"10 down vote accepted No, and the reason is simple enough. GEO is at an altitude of 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) above the Earth's equator and no satellites in geostationary or geosynchronous (GSO) orbit are large enough to reflect sufficient amounts of light towards the observer with their truss and solar panels to be visible to the naked eye on the surface of the Earth. They're simply too far away and the atmospheric diffraction doesn't help either, further blurring small and faint objects of high apparent magnitude. If you're extremely lucky with weather and other conditions from where you're observing (especially the light pollution, described e.g. by Bortle scale, should be as low as possible to detect such faint objects), you might be able to see some with powerful binoculars or a hobbyist-grade telescope..."
Then WTH was it? Little Johny's weather balloon school project decided to stick itself onto the sky like a nail and not move and look like the most fixed shining pointlight-object in the world?