NUFORC Sighting 78821

Occurred: 2010-11-08 00:00 Local
Reported: 2010-11-09 19:12 Pacific
Duration: 3 or 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Darwin (Australia), , Australia

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flashing white light roughly same position blinking about 30 seconds apart 5 or 6 times before moving further away from the planet

Saw a bright light flash in very clear night sky over Darwin, Australia on the 8th November 2010.

I was looking up at stars at the time as I have done nearly every night for a few years while sitting outside around midnight so it was out of the ordinary. I initially thought it could be a plane flying over at high altitude but it was just one flash of light rather than normal plane lights, plus it did not track across the sky.

I waited and about 30 seconds or so then the same flash of light but in about the same position, so I decided to count the intervals of flash to check if it was consistent. By my count it was intervals of 32 (counting 1 and 2 and 3 and etc). This happened about 5 or 6 times until the flashes got dimmer quite quickly as if moving away.

The area of stars I was looking at would have been about 'Orion' at the time, maybe slightly to the west of that.

Posted 2010-11-21