mrtn
Dagobah Resident
Since a couple of months I regularly see flashes of lights in the night sky and wonder what they are. They are very short but seem very bright. By the time my eyes move to where it seems to have occurred it's already gone. Mostly it's a single flash, but sometimes it repeated a second and rarely a third or fourth time. I never managed to have it focused with my eyes, it's always off by some degrees, so i also can't tell if it is moving. It's also never a regular interval, anything between 2 and about 10 seconds. It mostly flashes rather sharply, similar to a camera flash but sometimes I also had the impression it was a bit slower like with a very short fade in/out. That's when i thought it's maybe some tumbling object like a satellite reflecting the sun. When tumbling around multiple axes it would explain the irregular interval. Of course I also think about UFOs or something rather roundly shaped to explain the fade effect when sunlight gets reflected gradually so to speak. It's difficult to say if you can never focus it. It's brighter than all other things I see in the night sky, though it could seem brighter than it is because it's in the corner of the eye or at least a bit off the focus. Definitely brighter than stars, satellites or maybe even the ISS when directly above, but difficult to compare because those do not flash. I see those from my apartment window looking east, approximately 30/45 degrees up from the horizon. It's also strangely always more or less in the same region, thought that's pretty much just the region you see when looking out from that window, but I'm frequently spotting other things like satellites, airplanes etc. in a wider field of view. I'm also familiar with the usual things and I'm watching the night sky a lot; we have an airport here in Dresden, Germany, and large and small airplanes, helicopters all the time.
I found this thread: strange night flashes
but what I see is not muted or cloud shaped. I also doubt it's some eye/brain thing. I had flashes of light as was mentioned in a lately session, which seemed to be related to some brain activity but that was something completely different. It's also more likely to be seen when the sky is clear, and I never see it when completely cloud covered. I also thought about that space war that would become more visible, and the satellites that 'fizzled' (if these were the words?) Maybe some plasma phenomenon? I don't think it's meteors or something like this because there is no visible movement or tail or whatever.
Has anybody else seen that?
I also wonder why 99% of the satellites I see these days are flying straight north instead of the usual east when they swarm here over Germany according to satellite maps.
Another weird thing some weeks ago was two white blinking lights coming from east, that looked like an airplane when far away, but without the red blinking and other stuff they have here. but when it came nearer I saw that the two lights were not next to each other like with the airplanes but behind / in a row. It went over the houses/city slightly south. I went to the staircase on the other side of this building to see it flying west. That was eery, you couldn't see any shape, only those two bright lights blinking in perfect synchronicity. But if it was a single object it would have been very large for my estimation, and with the airplanes flying here you usually can see some shape and you can definitely hear something when they are that near/low, but that one was silent. I also though maybe it's two helicopters flying behind each other (with their lights in perfect sync?) or something like a tandem rotor helicopter, but you would have heard something! Also the helicopters I usually see have a directional light, but this had 'just lights' when flying towards here and when flying away from here. Maybe some NATO stuff I don't know but it was weird!
Not sure if these are proper Questions for the C's. Or Maybe someone has another idea what these flashes could be?
I found this thread: strange night flashes
but what I see is not muted or cloud shaped. I also doubt it's some eye/brain thing. I had flashes of light as was mentioned in a lately session, which seemed to be related to some brain activity but that was something completely different. It's also more likely to be seen when the sky is clear, and I never see it when completely cloud covered. I also thought about that space war that would become more visible, and the satellites that 'fizzled' (if these were the words?) Maybe some plasma phenomenon? I don't think it's meteors or something like this because there is no visible movement or tail or whatever.
Has anybody else seen that?
I also wonder why 99% of the satellites I see these days are flying straight north instead of the usual east when they swarm here over Germany according to satellite maps.
Another weird thing some weeks ago was two white blinking lights coming from east, that looked like an airplane when far away, but without the red blinking and other stuff they have here. but when it came nearer I saw that the two lights were not next to each other like with the airplanes but behind / in a row. It went over the houses/city slightly south. I went to the staircase on the other side of this building to see it flying west. That was eery, you couldn't see any shape, only those two bright lights blinking in perfect synchronicity. But if it was a single object it would have been very large for my estimation, and with the airplanes flying here you usually can see some shape and you can definitely hear something when they are that near/low, but that one was silent. I also though maybe it's two helicopters flying behind each other (with their lights in perfect sync?) or something like a tandem rotor helicopter, but you would have heard something! Also the helicopters I usually see have a directional light, but this had 'just lights' when flying towards here and when flying away from here. Maybe some NATO stuff I don't know but it was weird!
Not sure if these are proper Questions for the C's. Or Maybe someone has another idea what these flashes could be?
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