I'm an airline pilot, and saw a strange phenomena last night that I was hoping you can explain to me.
We were flying over northern Nevada around 11:30 PST, 8/29/2014. From our position is was at about a 230 degree heading from our position, and about 60 degrees up in the sky. We were at 38,000 ft, approximately westbound.
I've seen on many occasions pulsating planets, shimmering stars, satellites, the space station, etc. This was nothing like that. It flashed exactly like a bright strobe light, very constantly at 11 second intervals (I timed it with my stopwatch app). It was stationary, and lasted for about 15-20 mins before dimming and disappearing.
Thanks for any insight, it was pretty neat and I'm looking forward to hearing what this might be!
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Does it piss anyone else off that every single concert seems to feel the need to use flashing lights to make things more 'exciting,' and flashing lights in movies for the same thing? This is the case with a lot of music videos etc. too.
If you have photosensitive epilepsy this can cause seizures. It makes me angry that you pay so much money to see these things and have to spend half the time with your eyes averted. (Occasionally concerts will have a sign outside with a warning, but of course this is AFTER you've bought the ticket..)
There was press about this back when anime was becoming big in the US and Pokemon was giving kids seizures with the rapidly flashing lights. But it doesn't seem to matter still.
I even went to a party with work and they had a dance floor with strobe lights, and I had to leave. My boss was kind of bewildered/pissed so I told her what the problem was and said I hoped they would not do that next year. Again, this is not an unknown commodity. Why does it make things more 'exciting'?
Any thoughts? Anyone had problems with this? Thanks..