About a week ago at about 11pm I was looking at the night sky from my garden and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a flash then another right above at 12 oclock in the sky.I thought this was strange but did not think much more about it as did not get a direct look. That was untill last night 3/07/08 at 11pm very clear sky.I was laying on my back looking at the at stars when it happened again.This time there was no doubt it was directly above .Four distinct flashes of light just like seeing a camera flash from a distance all within a few seconds. They all flashed in the same area of sky but not close enough to be one object . Has anyone else seen this happen? Has anyone got a logical answer. Cheers Tarifa37

Its hard to say it could be an optical illusion it could be meteorites disintegrating burning up it could be many things I guess.
Ive seen it myself I don't even begin to try and know what it is.
I seen it about 15 years ago and I seen it about 1 year ago so its not something thats just started happening.

I've seen these flashes and they scared the bejeezus out of me. I thought it was that kind of cloudless lightning and was right worried that my number was up. But since that first time I've seen them several nights now while I'm out walking the grounds. I've talked to others who have seen them, and the best theory I got was that it was some new kind of atmospheric activity like the aurora borealis because the electromagnetic field of the earth's core has gone wonky.

I guess I'm not sure I really want to know what's going on with this.

Was the sky really clear or was there a little mist??

I know you say it was a very clear night, I'm just wondering if there was a bit of mist around too?

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That anon reply is mine I had not loged on, DOH!

AWESOME!! i have seen this as well. there have been a lot of "falling stars" lately and so most nights i take a blanket outside and chill underneath the sky.

i have seen these flashes as well but they are so quick that i think somehow my mind has been playing tricks and never thought to say much.

they light up the whole sky, but it is JUST like a camera flash, very quick and white. haven't seen green.

i am in texas. saw a few last night.

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take a look at the post, strange stars moving acrross the sky, it ties in with this.Oh and flag that post ,trying to see how many more see these starlike objects flash and move and do other intresting things

I once saw a flash in the day that lasted a few seconds, there was no plane around but it could have been an iridium flare, possible even a gamma ray burst but i doubt it, can't think of anything else though.

Probably space-junk or satellites randomly glinting/flashing when they catch the sun at the right angle. There's a heck of a lot of junk up there...

Yeah im seeing these flashes aswell.. exactly like whats said above.. like the quick flash of a camera.. either just one flash or four times..

I saw what looked like a star exploding two nights ago.At first i thought i was seeing things .I live in UK Sheffield.

I too have noticed these just as you described, most of them I write off as reflections off of my glasses(which I know some of them are). But some of them I am looking at them straight on, it is a very dim and quick flash, too quick too really wrap your mind around. I also thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. I have no clue what they are but I know they aren't lightning. Anyway very interesting that other people have noticed this. Oh yea I live in southwest Kansas.