I’m new here, so I hope this is an appropriate question. We were out last night just casually stargazing (no telescope) and around 11:30pm near the west horizon, “below” Mars, a brief flash brighter than the stars occurred. It happened again some time later, so we recorded the time between flashes in case it was happening at regular intervals. ~53 seconds passed between a couple more flashes, then no more.
A couple minutes later, the same thing happened closer to the east horizon, but with 8 second intervals. It stopped after about a minute.
I’ve seen satellites light up and then gradually dim as they go across the sky before, but never stationary lights like this. Anyone have ideas??
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hi and welcome, they would probably tell us it was a weather balloon their usual answer!!! 
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We saw such a thing last year, I asked about it on another forum, but no explanation! 
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Weird! I’ll keep looking into it and update the post if I figure it out!
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Man this kind of stuff is always tough to figure out, we didnt see it. It could be anything. I am guessing but maybe you caught a bit of Starlink?
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Cosmo,
Any cities on the eastern and western horizons?
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No, really just hills and mountains on either side. We’re quite remote!
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What do they call UFOs now ? Oh yeah UAP (unidentified anonymous phenomena) . 
I thought UFO was fine but somebody always gotta throw wrenches in the gears .
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