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AJS84

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  1. Ahh. I always wondered about meteors coming straight in. I thought about that with the random flashes I have seen but someone told me that all meteors come in at an angle. You wouldn't be able to see one coming straight towards you.
  2. If this is the wrong place for this topic I apologize. But hopefully this isn't the wrong site for such a topic as this. I google search forums that are fairly active and this seemed like the best one. I didn't want to ask this on a UFO website where every single person said it was Aliens. What I'm seeing I'm sure has a good explanation but as of right now, I'm stumped. I stargaze a lot. Amateur astronomy is my #1 hobby. So I'm not just some random person who has no clue about Astronomy, see's a weird flash out of the corner of their eye and automatically assume it was the Mothership taking off at warp speed. I first saw a strange flash about 2 years ago. Was looking for random meteors when all of a sudden this speck of light, just like a star, formed out of black sky, reached a magnitude of about -2 and quickly went out. Just imagine an Iridium Flare but it's stationary. You don't see it, then when you do it's dim and then quickly gets brighter then back to dim and eventually not visible. From then to now I have seen 3 flashes that has done exactly that. On to the other flashes. Again black sky, all of sudden it's as if someone in Space has a huge camera flash and flashes it. No warning, no starting out dim. Just a flash and back to black. I have seen this probably 30 times in the past 2 years. These take place between an hour to 3 hours after Sunset. I have seen flashes at times at all hours after Sunset to Sun rise. But not many. Maybe 5 or so. **Pic included** Another flash is one that was actually moving around 7:00 pm Oct 25, 2014 and I had managed to capture a picture of that on 2 different cameras. I will post that if I can. I saw a flash that was about a magnitude of -4, I quickly looked through the binoculars and I saw a very dim speck, probably a magnitude of 5 or 6 traveling in a straight line towards the South slower than what the ISS appears to be. There was no pattern to the flash. The flashing was at random intervels and random brightness. 1 second between each flash or up to 7 seconds. I watched this object for about 4 minutes until I could no longer see the flashes. This past Thursday, November 20th at around 7pm I saw flashing that has me totally stumped. I was looking more towards the West when I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head looking above Mars. I figured it was a bright meteor. Then I saw another flash higher up, about a magnitude of -2. It was right near Alpha Capricorni. Raised the binos, looked in the area of the Double Star and saw a flash at Xi2, just right of the Double Stars. Automatically I said "whoa". Then there was another flash but it had not moved. Then another and another. These flashes were a magnitude of about 2. I watched for about a minute. There was about 6 more flash. They had not moved. I went inside to get someone to witness this as well. I didn't want to tell the story without someone else seeing these flashes. So I got my Dad to come out, showed him where to look but I had not told him what to look for. About 6 seconds after looking, "What flashed?". I was glad to hear that. He watched for about 30 seconds. Saw about 4 flashes. He gave me the binoculars back while he went to get his own pair. and I looked again. I saw a flash but this time it had moved to the 10 o'clock position of Xi2. There was 2 more flashes. The next flash it was at the 8 o'clock position. 2 flashes later it was at the 12 o'clock position but further away from the star. The last time I saw it, which was about 8 minutes from the first bright flash that got my attention, there was 2 dull flashes at the 3 o'clock position of the Star. There was no more flashes after that. The first words out of his mouth after the flashing had stopped was, "What the hell was that?". It boggles my mind. I wanted to think rationally but everything that came to mind didn't make sense. A satellite isn't going to dance around like that. Neither will a meteor or space junk. I just have no idea. These 2 pics are of the moving object that flashed. One with a Canon SX130 IS, the other with a Canon SX 510HS.
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