Saw something hovering over the cornfield behind my house last night and I can't stop thinking about it

Right so first thing - what was the weather like that night? Asking because the Pendle area where I am gets some genuinely weird atmospheric effects that can make light sources do very strange things, and a lot of people write those off without investigating further. But I've also photographed things over farmland that had absolutely no logical explanation once you rule all that out.

The hovering is the key detail for me. Drones drift slightly, helicopters make noise, weather balloons move with the wind. True hovering with no drift is a much smaller category of explanation.

If you can get back out there tonight or tomorrow, take photos of the exact location in daylight and try to note any reference points - treeline, pylons, that sort of thing. It helps massively when people try to replicate the geometry of what you saw. Also worth checking if there are any ley line intersections near that field, I've found those spots tend to accumulate reports over time and yours wouldnt be the first from farmland like that.

What did it look like when it eventually left?

Good shout @arthur_thompson, atmospheric stuff can account for a lot but it doesnt cover everything. OP what was the movement like - was it drifting with any kind of wind direction or was it holding completely still regardless of conditions? That's the bit that usually separates the mundane explanations from the stuff worth looking into properly.

@arthur_thompson makes a fair point but I'd also want to know the exact shape of the thing. Back in 2019 I was out near Loch Lomond and saw something hovering low over a field, completely silent, and the shape was what told me straight away it wasnt any conventional aircraft. Triangular? Disc? Elongated? That detail matters more than people realise. The movement pattern @Gezza30 was asking about is crucial too - genuinely anomalous objects tend to have this quality where they sort of hold position in a way that just looks wrong, like something is actively correcting its position rather than drifting. Can you describe the shape OP?