(meteorobs) Point Meteor or Flaring Satelite

[James Beauchamp]

My allsky camera catches them about once every couple of weeks.  Too slow to be meteors. Perfectly stationary = NOT IRIDIUM.  Always just after sunset or just prior to sunrise.  Always about the same az/el as you described, so can't be geostationary.
Orbitron never shows anything either, so the only thing I can think of is military SIGINT or ELINT in a molniya orbit with a BIG solar array. 
Something is up there watching us all :)

--- On Thu, 10/13/11, prospector at znet.com <prospector at znet.com> wrote:

From: prospector at znet.com <prospector at znet.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Point Meteor or Flaring Satelite
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 10:51 PM

This moring at 05:32 local time I was walking under open trees and saw a
point meteor or flaring satelite just one hand length to the left of and
slightly lower than Jupitor. Jupitor was slightly brighter too, so
whaterver it was, it was -3 to -4. It lasted a few seconds, coming in from
the SSW, I couldn't detect any movement and no lights from an airplane, I
did not have my binoculars with me whcih could have resolved the problem of
identiy. Checking two satelite sites produced nothing at that time or area.
Further checking by satelite experts may prove it was a flaring satelite
which happen much more often than point meteors of any magnetude, but I
wanted to post this to perhaps generate other reports.

                                    Dave English
                               Oceanside, California
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