back in the day a company invisioned a network of satellites that would give global coverage everywhere, and hence the iridium network was born [the network is called iridium becuase the atomic number for it is 77 and they launced 77 satelites]
These satellites bounce sunlight off there reflectors and become very very bright for a decent amount of time, and you could have been passing over you in a direction that was head on, therefore it would have appeared to not move, they fade out really fast after they flare up
<span style='color:red'>IMPORTANT LINK IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY SEE AN IRIDIUM FLARE!</span>
go to <a href='http://www.heavens-above.com/' target='_blank'>heavens-above</a> and put in your area location and this site will give you a list of all the objects that pass over and are visible, including the iridums
and since I'm a good little boy I bring links that prove what I say <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.assa.org.au/observing/iridium/#about' target='_blank'>About the iridum network</a>
<a href='http://satobs.org/iridium.html' target='_blank'>Sky and Telescope's page on iridium</a> [sky and telescope is basically the nation geographic of space]
<!--QuoteBegin-- satobs.org/iridium.html+--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ( satobs.org/iridium.html)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A relatively small communications satellite has been providing spectacular visible reflective flares/glints to observers on the ground (*refer to respectfully submitted definition for flares/glints).
With only a normal brightness of +6 magnitude (binoculars are useful to spot it), occasionally some of the Iridium satellites provide reflective flares/glints of magnitude (-)8. For comparison, Venus can be as bright as magnitude (-)4.9, thus reflections can be up to 30 times brighter than Venus. The flares/glints can last anywhere from 5 to 20 seconds before the satellite once again becomes almost invisible to the naked eye. Some flares have been observed during the daylight hours which is very unusual for reflective glares from satellites. Knowing where to look to observe these flares during the daylight hours is essential. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
3000 years ago, cows were free and wild. They lived togetther, happy. Until one day, an evil man caught the cows. Byby cows were seperated from there mama-cows (*sniff*) and they were all put into stables. The cows were very unhappy about this and so, on night, they all cried out together. It was a terrible noise, making the head of the evil man explode. Now the cows were free again, and happy. But tehs econd before his death, the evil man cursed the cows, he predicted a much much more brutal and evil man to come in 3000 years. The light you saw was this evil man's spacecraft, because he is an evil cow eating alien. Now I have to go and warn all cows. I like cows <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
If you find this story strange: I think is is strange, too. However, I gotta go having lunch now.
<!--QuoteBegin--Mullet+Dec 4 2003, 01:13 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Dec 4 2003, 01:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's the French, planning their world domination. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> haha, that was almost funny the french cant do such a thing! and germany proved that in ww2 (France, stated as having the 2nd best and largest army in the world at that time got pushed over by germany in 1 month.) with nuclear weapons though, nah theyll prob accidently nuke themselves!
Hey, I've actually seen something like that myself. Me and my parents were driving somewhere in the car and I see this bright star. I tell my mother to look at it and point without taking my eyes from it. But my mother doesn't see anything so i move my eyes to see if she's looking in the right direction, and when I look back the bright thing is gone. Really spooky.
<!--QuoteBegin--XeroSlayer+Dec 4 2003, 09:52 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (XeroSlayer @ Dec 4 2003, 09:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Probably Smart_bomb exploding. He shouldn't hovar so much... (i know its a dead joke, but, uh, yeaah...) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> if X = dead horse, y = whip, You = hit X with Y
<!--QuoteBegin--Mullet+Dec 4 2003, 12:13 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Dec 4 2003, 12:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's the French, planning their world domination. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> HAhahahahahaah!!!...That will never happen.'
It could be a submarine MIRV. Subs launch them, it flies into space and breaks it self into 10 other smaller missles and homes in on it's target. The part when it break it self down might be what you saw.
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<!--QuoteBegin--George_The_Gorge+Dec 4 2003, 02:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (George_The_Gorge @ Dec 4 2003, 02:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think it's pretty safe to say that people ignoring Kid's post so that they can post "witty" explanations. Or they could just be selectively blind... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> my sentiments exactly <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
that post took me the better part of 10 minutes becuase It hit me in the middle of class what it was that he probably saw
about 2 years ago when i lived in Michigan, I was lout on the fourth of july with some friends ont he beach, I was looking out over Lake Michigan, all of a sudden I see a bright glint, I stare at it real hard and its 2 spheres connected with a real thin tube, it shoots to the left, then the right, then flies straight up.
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I used to watch them with my father all the time
back in the day a company invisioned a network of satellites that would give global coverage everywhere, and hence the iridium network was born [the network is called iridium becuase the atomic number for it is 77 and they launced 77 satelites]
These satellites bounce sunlight off there reflectors and become very very bright for a decent amount of time, and you could have been passing over you in a direction that was head on, therefore it would have appeared to not move, they fade out really fast after they flare up
<span style='color:red'>IMPORTANT LINK IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY SEE AN IRIDIUM FLARE!</span>
go to <a href='http://www.heavens-above.com/' target='_blank'>heavens-above</a> and put in your area location and this site will give you a list of all the objects that pass over and are visible, including the iridums
and since I'm a good little boy I bring links that prove what I say <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.assa.org.au/observing/iridium/#about' target='_blank'>About the iridum network</a>
<a href='http://www.iridium.com/' target='_blank'>Offical iridium corporation website</a>
<a href='http://satobs.org/iridium.html' target='_blank'>Sky and Telescope's page on iridium</a> [sky and telescope is basically the nation geographic of space]
<!--QuoteBegin-- satobs.org/iridium.html+--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ( satobs.org/iridium.html)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A relatively small communications satellite has been providing spectacular visible reflective flares/glints to observers on the ground (*refer to respectfully submitted definition for flares/glints).
With only a normal brightness of +6 magnitude (binoculars are useful to spot it), occasionally some of the Iridium satellites provide reflective flares/glints of magnitude (-)8. For comparison, Venus can be as bright as magnitude (-)4.9, thus reflections can be up to 30 times brighter than Venus. The flares/glints can last anywhere from 5 to 20 seconds before the satellite once again becomes almost invisible to the naked eye. Some flares have been observed during the daylight hours which is very unusual for reflective glares from satellites. Knowing where to look to observe these flares during the daylight hours is essential. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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If you find this story strange: I think is is strange, too. However, I gotta go having lunch now.
haha, that was almost funny the french cant do such a thing! and germany proved that in ww2 (France, stated as having the 2nd best and largest army in the world at that time got pushed over by germany in 1 month.) with nuclear weapons though, nah theyll prob accidently nuke themselves!
if X = dead horse, y = whip, You = hit X with Y
it wa me lighting one of my farts from my biplane
HAhahahahahaah!!!...That will never happen.'
It could be a submarine MIRV. Subs launch them, it flies into space and breaks it self into 10 other smaller missles and homes in on it's target. The part when it break it self down might be what you saw.
Or it was the short yellow dropship.
I farted.
my sentiments exactly <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
that post took me the better part of 10 minutes becuase It hit me in the middle of class what it was that he probably saw
I was freaked.