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Eric Doyle
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Mars is very bright right now, but it's in the East, maybe Venus?

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-ton ight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury


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Larry Lawrence
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Step one for us amateur sky-sleuths: recreate the night sky at the hour with an astronomy program. Check the portion of the sky for the Moon, and if nothing's there, start looking for other candidates.

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If I've got the time and night right, the Moon should have been low and to the southeast, so it has an alibi.


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Jeffrey Langford
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Mention it to the Military and they'll say it's a weather balloon.
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International Space Station? Use this link to see if it or something else flew over your area last night.
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/
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Rick Senger
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Maybe it was those pesky neighboring Brady kids.

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Stephen Bergstrom
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Who knows? Maybe the other side of that cloud had a bat-signal on it.
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