Anyone experience this?
I'm out stargazing and a sattelite is going by heading SE. It is dim, then all of a sudden flashes, gets dim, goes black, gets dim, flashes, and the cycle repeats about every 6 seconds. I've never experienced this before and I've seen a lot of objects. Was it an Iridium flare? That would be insanely rare so Im thinking, no. This object I'm thinking is rotating, hence the flash?
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