What did I see in the sky last week?, page 1
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reply posted on 17-2-2009 @ 12:42 AM by Now_Then
That sounds like an Iridium flare... The Iridium satellites have these solar panels and when they catch the sun you can see something like you described - even in daylight sometimes.

They can be predicted very accurately as well - check out www.heavens-above.com shove in your exact position (use something like google maps to get your lat / long and height above sea level) and it will give you all the ones comming up in the next 7 days! as well as things like the space stations and other sats.

Although I don't think you can go back to see past events.


reply posted on 17-2-2009 @ 09:29 PM by daniel_g
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Thanks, I looked up a video of those iridium flares and found this:



exactly what we saw, except that it was in the evening sky and the object, whatever it was, was moving much slower (or not moving at all, didn't have much reference points + we were in a moving vehicle making it harder to trace a path)



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