Tynemouth lifeboat search after planet Jupiter mistaken for flare

[lexyastroman]

This as got to be one of the strangest case of mistaken identity ever...

BBC News - Tynemouth lifeboat search after planet Jupiter mistaken for flare

[damnut]

Hi There,

I spent five days in Numberland last week under completely black skies, have sailed for many years. We walked the dogs on Druridge Bay beach in the eve and Jupiter could have quite easily been mistaken for a flare except it did not float down....

And a white flare is for collision warning and illumination!!