Rob, any chance it was a cosmic-ray strike on your retina? No kidding, this can happen, even on the surface (not just in orbit above the atmosphere). I've had it happen at least twice that I can recall with certainty. It appears just as you describe. Where you are looking at the time can determine how nuts you go trying to figure out what you saw. If looking at the sky, we try and think of something "out there" to explain it. It's more obvious when it happens indoors and you know there is no other explanation. I can't say for sure that cosmic rays are directly responsible, it could be due to secondary particles from the air shower. If this is really what happens, then we can truthfully be called low-resolution, organic gamma ray telescopes ;) --- Rob Ratkowski <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
What I saw Saturday was a bright point of light, no variation in color or luminosity and lasting less than 1/3 sec. At first I thought it was a plane but there was only a single flash that I SAW (there may have been a couple??) and I did look for more. Nada! So I do suppose that it was a glint off a satellite, I looked at Heavens Above but there was nothing that was noted that it could have been.
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