(meteorobs) strange sight in Pegasus

[Richard Kramer]

At 01:03 PM 8/10/04 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/10/2004 12:30:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>kramer at sria.com writes:
>
><< a
>  tumbling satellite in high orbit? >>
>
>Richard:
>
>I think this seems to be a good answer.  There are some wildly
>tumbling satellites up there, although it seems a bit late in the
>night.  On Sunday at about the same time I saw a satellite
>disappear into the Earth's shadow at an elevation of about 70
>or 80 degrees overhead toward the East.

I don't think it was a satellite. It would be a strange sort of tumble 
which could produce exactly 4 non uniform flashes of that nature. Another 
thing which argues against a satellite is that the flashes were not 
translating and there were only 4 of them. If it was a tumbling satellite 
in high orbit, I would expect to see more repetitions of the flashes. Also, 
the flashes were considerably brighter than any tumbling satellite I've 
ever seen (although not as bright as iridium flares). If this came off of a 
high orbit satellite, it would have to be huge.

Richard