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Yep, makes reporting distress flares pretty difficult too.
I used to live on the beachfront and occasionally saw flares so would ring the local sea rescue. Pretty much every time I got a 5min run-around on whether it was just Venus we were looking at or some other bright star or even a meteor.
I would have to politely explain to them that I know how Venus appears in the sky and what stars look like and then would describe to them the flare I saw.
I can understand why they go to great lengths to discount possible Venus sightings!
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