Strange flashing light beside Jupiter. What is it?

reply to post by FlySolo



nice find.. if you ask the government though they might say its the chemtrails from flight 808

At the 2.29 min mark there is a light moving away fast did you notice that too?

It looks like what we have here is some sort of light pillar created by a flashing ground light in the vicinity. The light pillar is a localized phenomenon explaining why his pal on the phone did not see it.

In addition to the above-mentioned light pillar, also those Xenon-skylights came to mind. They don't necessarily create a continuos visible beam from the ground up -depending on the atmospheric conditions- but become visible on clouds at higher altitudes. And as there are all variations of those, stationary/strobe/pattern, i'd go for the latter, each flash being at a given spot of the skylights route on the sky. Seen those being used with major events and have to say, seeing for the first time one of those, was a bit eerie.

Also, nice iridium satellite flare

It could just be a stationary rotating satelite, like the one in the image below. That could also account for the 8 or 6 second interval.