Starship Asterisk*

I was all set to accept MaG's Iridium flare explanation, then I checked the orbits via NASA's JTrack (http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html). All the listed Iridiums are in polar orbits. That does not explain these west-to-east streaks. If they are satellites, they are not the Ir...

This may sound strange, but I believe the streaks may be a set of electrickery wires running across the field of vision, with the supporting poles out of sight. The light from the bright source near the horizon at the bottom right may be reflecting of the wires. But in that case the brightest point...

It is just that I did see one of those mysterious streaks too. [...] Then there was this streak coming in from the right (the southeast) and going to the left (east), and perfectly horizontal. If you saw a streak, it was properly the trail of a plane. Flares are seen as dots where the light grows s...

Could these could be 'glinting' from the reflective surfaces? Yes, it could indeed. I'm fairly certain it's satellite flares. The picture below is a confirmed shot of a -8 flare made by Iridium 65. The much smaller flare is made by an unknown satellite, and occurred approx. 1 min before the Iridium...