From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, February 24, 2023 at 8:34:40 AM UTC+11, Skybuck Flying wrote:   
   > Wow your reaction was fast ! If you live near the east coast of the USA or   
   England you might even spot it, it's most likely coming your way, or maybe   
   it's going to Amsterdam/Schiphol, I don't know...    
   >    
   > I did post a new/third thread in my own subthread with a picture/impression   
   of what I saw.    
   ...   
      
   OK. High in the W. Not the moon because that's a sliver and down nr the horiz   
   at sunset.   
      
   It seems to have come and gone in seconds but still not clear   
   on movement or how it grew or faded.   
      
   If it was stationary then likely it is not in the atm or even in earth orbit.   
      
   When I started looking at images from variuous space telescopes I found "q   
   lot" of odd-shaped flashes. One frame they are not there, then they are there,   
   next frame they are gone again.   
      
   I didn't do too much simulating and crunching, but it seemed they were   
   associated with asteroids. I was working up a database of all the near-earth   
   asteroids to maybe see if there is a time coincidence between asteroids   
   getting close and flashes or slow    
   pulses in the sky.   
      
   I see what I call yellow pulses on a regular basis. You're scanning the sky,   
   looking for black boomerangs or whatever, and suddenly a fuzzy round ball   
   grows from nothing, stays for a second or 2, then fades out in 1-2 sec to   
   nothing again. Usually they    
   dont move. If you are not looking exactly at them when they happen you would   
   never know they had happened.   
      
   Sometimes I see a pulse in the same rough position in the sky at the same time   
   on 2-3 successive days.   
      
   Hard to believe they could be a spinning asteroid or space rocks knocking   
   together. But that might be it. There are, of course, other exotic   
   explanations. :)   
      
   A scientist I hear from from time to time is researching what she calls   
   "disappearing stars". I noticed from their last newsletter they are now also   
   looking at "appearing stars". The unsusual thing about their work is -- they   
   are ussing photo plates from    
   the 1950s before any satellites were in the sky.   
      
   So far they dont know what these flashes are. They are not there in one plate.   
   A plate taken a few hrs later has them. The next plate taken hours later does   
   not have them. Sometimes it's just the one flash. Sometimes there is a line of   
   them.   
      
   They dont know what they are.   
      
   It can drive you crazy trying to figure even one of these things out.   
      
   I was looking west one evening. Saturn was high in sky blkazing away. There   
   was some darkish low cloud over in that dir, too.   
      
   Then I noticed on the bottom of the cloud was a bright spot. Like it was lit   
   up by a searchlight. It was exactly under the position of Saturn.   
      
   Somehow -- so it seemed -- a beam of light was coming down from Saturn,   
   punching a hole through the cloud, and appearing as a bright spot maybe 15'   
   across on the bottom of the cloud.   
      
   How could this happen? How? How? How?   
      
   I was going crazy to figure out what was going on.   
      
   Eventually the Universe revealed the answer to me.   
      
   The clouds parted a bit near the spot and -- ta ta ta ta -- the moon was   
   behind there.   
      
   Just by coincidence the moon was almost eactly under   
   the position of Saturn. A thinning of the cloud just at the right point meant   
   I could see part of the moon through the cloud and it just looked like   
   Saturn was somehow shining a beam down and reaching the bottom of the cloud.   
      
   Every case is a puzzler until you get the answer. :)   
      
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