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Bright slow moving...

Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2020 1:28 pm
by wizardofmann
...flashing object.

I am almost too scared to post this in case I am labelled a crank, but here goes....

At around one fifteen am this morning, I noticed a tiny but extremely bright flash in the sky. The flash kept repeating approximately every ten seconds and was travelling almost due east. As it moved further away, the flashes became less bright. By one twenty-five am the flashes became difficult to make out and with that, vanished. I have to assume by the flashes getting dimmer, the object was moving away from the earth. If a commercial flight (Which it definitely was not) travel's at an average of five hundred and fifty miles an hour, I would estimate the speed it was travelling at would be one fourth of that speed, so in those ten minutes it only traversed a small part of the sky.

Before any wise cracks: I had not been drinking or smoking anything nasty. I am of sound body and even more so of the mind and definitely not sleep walking :-P The question is, did anybody else by any chance see it?

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2020 2:17 pm
by Kanonier
Could have been a helicopter?

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Sat 18 Jul 2020 3:06 pm
by wanderer

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2020 7:24 am
by sophie
I suspect Kanonier could be right. The army are out and about all the time.

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2020 9:13 am
by wizardofmann
Nope, definitely neither of those. If it was a helicopter and flashed that bright, there would only be one flash! And not a comet as there was no tail and comets do NOT flash :-)

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:03 am
by EnjoyingTheSun
It can't be a UFO as to the best of my knowledge they concentrate on kidnapping morbidly obese Americans in Kansas.

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:29 am
by Brinsley
I believe the casinos' are now open so could it be that, as in the past, some play with high powered sky directed laser lights?

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:35 am
by Kanonier
wizardofmann wrote:
Mon 20 Jul 2020 9:13 am
Nope, definitely neither of those. If it was a helicopter and flashed that bright, there would only be one flash! And not a comet as there was no tail and comets do NOT flash :-)
Don't look, Ethel! 😲😲

Re: Bright slow moving...

Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:20 pm
by Keithcaley
Too late! ;)