So about thirty minutes ago I was outside, there aren't any clouds but it's pretty misty out so I'm only just barely able to see any stars, and the Moon is visible but pretty hazy. So anyway, I was there for a while, and I turned around to look up at the sky when I saw what I thought was a really large and amazingly bright blue/white star in the south of the sky, which is unusual in itself, but then when you factor in the mist and the fact that the rest of the stars are so faint I need to strain my eyes just to see them, it doesn't make any sense to me at all.

Well I turned away from it for a moment to point it out to my neighbour, then when I looked back it was gone? I really only saw it for about five seconds, I don't know how long it might have been there before I noticed it. It was completely stationary, I couldn't hear anything, there wasn't anything to indicate that it might have been a plane or a helicopter (and if it was either it shouldn't have just disappeared like that). It seemed too large to be a meteorite, and it was stationary, so it would have to have been travelling directly towards me in order for it to appear still, which seems too unlikely to be the case.

I don't know what explanation I'm looking for, I can't imagine what it might've been, just putting it out there I guess.

I would suggest that it was a plane or helicopter with a searchlight. For a more exotic explanation you may have witnessed a supernova event. The last one within our galaxy that we know of was in 1604 know as the kepler's supervova. It was reportedly the brightest object in the sky, excluding the sun of course. This however is doubtful because the Keplar incident reportedly was visible for over six months before the light finally faded. But you never know

i doudt it was a searchlight on account that it was blue
heres the closest thing i found to it link to wat i found
other than that id have to say it was a ufo

It maybe an earthlight. A few reports of this phenomena include tales of people seeing stars move or disappear before their very eyes. They can be many colors, blue and white especially.

Could it have been a satellite?

Whoa, Kinda strange cause I seen some thing similar last night around the same time . My desk is right beside my window and I was looking out. There was an unusually bright twinkling blue and white star. It stuck me as odd so I stared at it for about five minutes.
Got up to do a few things and when I came back ten minutes later its gone .
weird..

I saw that while taking a walk on the beach with a beautiful clear night sky. It was most likely a satellite reflecting the sun towards your position then the earth getting in the way.

Hi,
I know its really disappointing to find that perhaps something isnt as mystical as it may at first seem, but Ive done quite a bit of research into stars and things after noticing that some were red or blue and many seemed to shine very brightly, and like others have already said there are fairly normal explanations for all. Stars shine very brightly just before they burn out for example so there is a possibility that what you witnessed was the burnout of a star (still quite mystical I think!) which would explain why it disappeared. Also satellites...theres loads of them up there! Try 'google' for explanations?

Actually, didn't a star that had exploded become visible to us that night?

I'm sure this was it. I've seen it before and looked pretty much the same.

I was considering that, but I dismissed the idea as naked eye supernovae are so rare, and like you said it shouldn't have been so shortlived.



Never heard of an eartlight before, what's that?



That is strange. I haven't checked back at the same time since to see if anything appeared again.





I've seen satellites before but nothing as large or bright as this, I suppose if it was positioned so that it was directly reflecting a lot of sunlight it could be possible, although I'm not sure if the light would appear blue/white?



Do you know more about that? I did a search for recent events that could have explained it but I couldn't come up with anything.

The only thing I could find was this but its from march 22.

alt. astronomy

A star going supernova anywhere in our galaxy would probably be brighter than the full moon for several months. Everyone in the world would know about it immediately, and you would not be left wondering what it was. A supernova in another galaxy probably wouldn't appear very special at all, because they're so far away.

What you saw fits the description of a satellite very well. When their solar panels catch the sun just right, they can flare to over -8 for a few seconds, that's brighter than Venus, brighter than anything except the full moon. They can be so bright as to be seen during the day sometimes.

It's just reflected sunlight, so it'll appear a brilliant white, possibly with a blue cast, depending on conditions. As you say, it was misty, so that wouldn't be unexpected.

^ Suits me. Thanks.

That happened to me before with a bright red star. There was still a glow from the sunset, so not many other stars were but it was definitely the brightest. Looked at it, went "ooh", then looked back and it was just gone. I never really thought much about it though, but it would be super-neat if it was a nova. o.0

I'm going to say sattelitte.