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Dark Sky
what was the flash of light in the dark sky?
I was on a dark beach in Victoria two nights ago when suddenly the beach lit up. We looked up to see a flashing light in the sky. Was this a shooting star? I was fortunate to catch another two stars fall the same night but the third was something i have never witnessed before. Does this mean u make a wish? 
I have witnessed one meteor at nighttime that was bright enough and lasted long enough for me to see it by accident, realise what it was, get the binoculars up to my eyes, and watch it for several seconds before it disintegrated. It's quite something. Most are like the others you saw.
Meteors do sometimes do what you describe for a few seconds. In 2001 there was one in the north-eastern US that was visible for 5 seconds in the late afternoon. But it's rare.
Don't want to rain on your parade (well, you don't need me to; you're in Victoria), but could it have been a flare?
RMVX: Dark Sky- Edited with Paint
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The Passion of the Christ (Score) $4.24 Mel Gibson staked $30 million and his superstar reputation on this painstakingly bloody interpretation of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, all the while dodging charges of anti-semitism and fostering excruciating cinematic gore at the expense of Christ's message (a notion that also begs some uncomfortable questions about this version's S&M undertones). But because the film's dialog p... |
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Hot August Night/NYC: Live From Madison Square Garden, August 2008 (DVD/CD) $17.60 Recorded live at New York's Madison Sqaure Garden in August 2008, Hot August Night/NYC captures Neil's phenomenal four-night sold-out run and presents definintive versions of classic tracks, audience crowd-pleasers, personal favorites of the artist, and the first concert versions of songs from his recent releases - the critically-acclaimed 12 Songs (2005) and Home Before Dark (2008) which debuted ... |
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Eaten Alive [VHS] A wild mix of surreal fantasy and grindhouse splatterfest, Tobe (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Hooper's 1976 sophomore feature pits an all-star cast against the homicidal owner of a backwoods hotel and his pet crocodile, with expectedly bloody results. Veteran character actor Neville Brand gives a memorably eccentric performance as the deranged hotelier, whose unpredictable rages frequently end in ... |
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Dark Skies [VHS] ... |
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Eclipse:The Day the Sky Went Dark [VHS] $12.00 ... |
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Weeds - Season Three $13.99 Weeds: Season Three continues the dark line of comedy that emerged in the previous season for this Showtime series. The story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) faced with a half-dozen guns pointing at her in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy's buyer, U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash of marijuana (worth severa... |
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