Occurred: 2006-08-20 21:45 Local
Reported: 2006-08-21 09:27 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Onion Creek, WA, USA

Shape: Flash


TRACKING A FAINT SATELLITE, AND AN EMERGING FLASH!

This time of the year is a good time to star gaze.. I had been tracking satellites and just marveling at the heavens when I saw a very faint satellite traveling south in what seemed a normal orbit.. Often the visibility varies with the faint ones and I was straining to track this one.. In a flash,,there WAS a flash...only a second, but very very bright flash, seemingly very large in reference to the faint satellite. A natural phenom??? Unknown to me..very interesting.. Definitely not the ISS, which I saw a week or so ago..That was a TREAT! There were no aircraft in the area>I do have military training.



Posted 2006-10-30

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