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Old 08-22-2008, 05:56 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cybermike View Post
We were driving home one night and across a cornfield I saw a light. When I first saw it, I thought it was an abnormally bright star. I know the area well and kept thinking where the hell the light could be coming from. There were no lights in the area, It's just a huge corn field. I noticed the light getting brighter and brighter and pointed it out to my dad and we slowed down and watched it continue to get brighter and brighter until it started looking like huge headlights.
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Originally Posted by blahblah454 View Post
About 3 years back I was off on my Aunt and Uncles farm in Saskatchewan. There are no air force bases anywhere near (closest is 200km away), and no major airports (closest is about 200km in the opposite direction of the base). Closest town is about 10km away. So its really dark, like no lights anywhere dark, just the stars and moon (thought I can't remember if they were out).

There were about 6 of us outside and we were looking for shooting starts. We saw what looked like a satellite, just larger, and moving about the same speed as the other satellites. It started to grow larger and brighter as it moved across the sky, and by this point we were all watching it. By the time it was roughly half way across the sky it was as large as plane lights appear to be on a commercial flight flying at cruising altitudes. So needless to say, this was incredibly large for what we once mistook as a satellite.
I'm disappointed. Up to this point in each of your stories, it was sounding a lot like Iridium Flares and I thought I could give you some closure, but once they start moving at angles, I don't know.

If anyone is interested in seeing them, there's tracking info where you can put in your location and get a chart of the next ones you'll see in the area on this page
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