I appreciate this is an old thread, however: I'm an ex-amateur astronomer, (my hobbies moved on over the decades). I do still spend a small amount of time sky-gazing with my naked eyes. I used to be quite obsessed by Iridium Flare spotting... and additionally spent a few years ticking off as many satellites on the Heavens Above database as I could. So, I'm reasonably familiar with 'observing stuff' in the night sky. I too have seen the unmoving pin-prick flashes. For example, tonight I saw 3 flashes, spread over perhaps 2 minutes of time, coming from the same position (I. E. within perhaps one minute of arc), of magnitude 1. The time was 10.20pm (GMT+1) and skies were clear. As a previous poster states, these are just like a camera flash going off in a dark stadium. I don't buy the "meteor coming in dead-on" explanation... Primarily because the statistical chance of three coming in like that is vanishingly negligible. I guess a geo-stationary satellite catching the sun would be a reasonable explanation... But it's odd that I've never seen anything like it before in my 40+yrs (on and off) of sky-watching.