Flashing light anomalies
Wow, thanks for your help everyone!!
We were up last night from 2.30 - 4.30 am and were treated to a great show of the Geminid meteorite shower, sometimes as many as 3 per minute.
Us and our flashing lights - we have another type of unusual sightings - these ones move and are quite bright, but the flash is irregular. We had one directly above us at about 3.30am - it had a bright flash followed almost immediately by a very faint one approx 5-10 second intervals and was visible for only about 5 flashes (less than a minute) whilst moving about 2 "fists" east.
Second sighting was about 4.10am in the WNW, alt 55 deg - nice strong flashes, less than 5 secs heading north - at mid viewing we could see it as a steady light (as a "normal" satellite) in between flashes - then it went back to being just a flashing light before losing visibility. We tracked it for about 4-5 "fists" (all of these are naked eye sightings).
They were not aeroplanes (not unless they are some of Mr Bush's high altitude spy planes!!!!)
Any ideas - just plain old space junk? (would much rather have a more exotic explaination!!)
cheers from the flashers
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