Random flares

Don't you just love it when you see one? There I am on the back doorstep
(the dark side of the house) having a quick ciggie and staring at the
sky as usual, and there's a flash, easily mag -2 or so. It's a satellite
flare. Wait... twenty seconds later another, a bit further along,
dimmer. Twenty seconds later, another quite dim, and that's it.

It could be anything, and the chances of pinning down what it was are
practically zilch. It's just some old spinning tin can with a shiny bit,
spending 99.999% of its time at mag 20 or something daft like that, but
just for me and at that moment a flat, shiny bit caught the sun.

I just love it when that happens.