> You're most likely seeing the ISS. > > Current position: > https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ATqmPLFGgBUpTLQ > > Live view from: > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9408562 > > The ebbing & flowing dunno. If the light was that bright your eyes just may not have > adjusted fast/well enough to see anything. Could have been in part to the large > geomagnetic storm that caused massive auroras on the 19th. > > My best guess. There are a couple people on here that know a lot more about this kind > of stuff than me. Hopefully they'll let me know I'm wrong & tell you what you really > saw.
Try to catch the ISS once and awhile. It is kind of cool when it goes into the shadow of the earth it just 'disappears'.