mightyspaceman, Long story short, I've been noticing these short flashes in the sky, almost like a camera flash from high up. They're really bright, like brighter than venus or even a plane in the distance, and flash for a fraction of a second. As I said, just like a camera flash from a kilometre away. Usually they'll flash with a period of 10-30 seconds for a few times (or maybe I just didn't watch for long enough), and seem to drift a small amount. Can't quite tell between the flashes if it is a straight line or not. There are countless other people who have seen them too.
My suspicion: a high-altitude sattelite or piece of space debris rolling over and catching the sun. The only problem with this is that it seems way too bright for that. Can't be an iridium flare because those grow brighter and then darker over about 15 seconds, they aren't just a flash.
To the point, are there any people willing to act as a secondary observer so as to triangulate the altitude? then it would be a simple matter of looking for passes of tracked objects at the time and see if any match. I am in tasmania, aus, so needing someone in mainland australia, the higher up the better (for more accuracy). Would need to set up some form of camera to observe it, higher the fov the better to capture more of the sky, and mounted on a levelled surface/tripod.
Here are two videos I found that capture exactly what I saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1_7GMYR58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NRwkbuMp0
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