You are absolutely correct but at least my old mate had hopefully eliminated nacht jager Bf110s and the rest of the Luftwaffe from the equation!
Seriously; just last month I had a young F/O flying with me who became absolutely convinced that Venus was an "opposite direction with the nose light on" and since the bearing was not changing, then maybe we had better move.
I was quite happy about that for he had never seen this phenomenon before. Needless to say, a ten degree heading change didn't work!
We had a good laugh afterwards and the occasion reminded me of when I was his age and at his stage of aviation experience.
History repeated itself - he bought his captain a beer and then I bought him several!