I went to the pub earlier tonight and was in the car park having a smoke....I looked up towards Cassiopiea constellation and was looking for a minute or so until I saw something moving across like a star moving........As I was looking I thought it's a satellite...but then it went really bright and just dissapeared......have I seen my first UFO or do satellites do this......Ive seen satellites before many times but have never seen them shine bright and then dissapear.....

by the way im in the UK and it was at about 21:15.....

[edit on 27/8/2008 by booda]

Yeah, satellites can "flash" as they blink out, because you see the light off of the metal edge of the solar panel right before you lose the face reflecting light. Try this for yourself with something reflective with a metal edge, and your car headlights or a flashlight.

Now it's a KFO (known flying object).

Possibly, but I cant get over the fact that it just disappeared......it was flying at excessive speed, shone really bright then was out of sight.....Ive seen satellites flying and have seen them go on for a while but this one just seemed a little odd....maybe the brightness took the adjustment of my eyes slightly out but my sight is pretty good and normally adjusts straight back....I kept looking toward the star and nothing......

It could be that. Although these were taken with long exposures. My light didn't actually move. It is definitely a possibility.

I have a number 333 problem...wheras I see this number quite a lot.......a couple of days ago I stayed in the Highlands of Scotland and in my hotel room I had a digital clock....as soon as I saw the clock I thoght...Im gonna wake up at 3:33 tonight....and I did.......I cant explain why this happens but it does when theres a digital clock in the room......I happened to me a long time ago every day until I took the digital clock out.....

what this got to do with anything here... i dont know but I was talking about it a few minutes earlier before I saw what this thread is about.....maybe Im clutching at straws but I find this place a great place to get some kind of answer/explanation.....

too many coincidences.....

I saw something similar the other night. I looked up to the sky and a bright star caught my attention, it was brighter than your average star, I then noticed it was moving so I kept looking at it, it continued travelling not too fast just kind of drifting and slowly disappeared. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds before it disappeared. Don't know what it is but if it was a satellite why did it flare up and disappear so fast? Do they revolve and if they do would it not have started flaring up again just as fast as it disappeared?

that sounds exactly like what I saw...if a satellite flares you would still see it...but this went really bright then disappeared....was strange....I would love it if this was my first UFO....but I want to get the logical explanations before I believe what I saw was a UFO.....(regardless of it being Alien or not)............

i saw the exact here in phoenix, az. As others i was looking up at what i thought was a star. I couldn't exactly tell if it was moving or not so i stared at it a little harder. within a few seconds its light became more intense and then just disappeared. Oh and of course no one else that was standing around me saw it.

Originally posted by bubbles75
I saw something similar the other night. I looked up to the sky and a bright star caught my attention, it was brighter than your average star, I then noticed it was moving so I kept looking at it, it continued travelling not too fast just kind of drifting and slowly disappeared. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds before it disappeared. Don't know what it is but if it was a satellite why did it flare up and disappear so fast? Do they revolve and if they do would it not have started flaring up again just as fast as it disappeared?

You know, I saw the same thing this summer. At first I thought it was a plane coming in my direction then it got extremely bright. It dimmed then continued casually towards the big dipper until it became out of view. Now I watch the big dipper when I get the chance. By any chance did what you see head that way?

I saw exactly the same thing last summer.... well my daughter, niece AND I did. I passed it off as an iridium flare after trying to find out what it was.
I have never seen anything like it in my life (but then again I may have never seen an Iridium flare in my life!)
The intensity of it increased at least, at a guess 20fold and got so bright that we thought it was heading towards us and then it just dimmed out and dissappeared. Im still positive it was a satellite. But kinda exciting at the time!