Walking outside in my neighborhood looking at the stars. Precise location was Carmel Mountain Ranch, in north San Diego county. I noticed what looked like an extremely bright star right above a hill when looking to the west. The “star” then proceeded to get dim, so dim I could barely see it anymore, which was very strange given how bright it was just moments earlier. In fact, I remember thinking it was the brightest star in the sky at that moment after looking east, west, north, and south. Over the next 4-6 minutes, the “star” proceeded to get VERY bright again, then dim, then bright, then dim, etc. BUT, not “blinking”. The brightening and dimming happened gradually, with each event taking about 5 or more full seconds for it to reach a maximum or minimum. After watching this object glow extremely bright, then so dim you could hardly even see it anymore for about 5 minutes, it disappeared altogether! If it were a star, it would remain stationary, or move slowly across the sky at best, and remain visible in the same general location for a significant amount of time. But after being there for 5 minutes glowing and dimming, it simply was gone altogether! I was so perplexed by this I spent another 10 minutes staring at the same part of the sky (west) waiting for the “star” to become visible again. In fact, I just went outside again (9:09 p.m.) to look for “the brightest star in the sky”, but to no avail. I am an avid sky watcher as I have seen anomalous things before a total of 3 times in my life. I do not report these things often, or at all, unless I am certain I have seen something “out of the ordinary”. This event lasted about 5 minutes and was VERY peculiar. I am very logically based, and consider myself a practical and scientific person. However, after seeing strange things in the sky 3 times in my life, I now look up almost every time I go outside. This event is one that will stick with me, as this “star” was SO bright it stood out among all the other stars in the sky for those moments, then simply disappeared after glowing at different intensities over a period of 4-6 minutes. I was excited, and still am, as I realized that this bright “star” was actually not a star at all. I just looked again (9:16 p.m.) and it’s STILL not there, after being the brightest thing in the damn sky! Truly awesome…
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Seraphin, we saw exactly the same thing from New Zealand May 2nd. Low in the east, extremely bright – too bright to be a star, and then diminishing. We saw it again tonight, but it was further away, but still the brightest ‘star’ in the sky and then diminishing to virtually nothing. What is it??
It was Venus, and I saw the dimming/brightening with my daughter, but we have no explanation for the way it changed wattage!
At 3:25 A.M. this morning on September 16, 2010 I was looking South out my bedroom window and witnessed what looked like a star go very bright 3 to 5 times the stars original brightness then fade to nothing. Was this Venus??? I have never seen this event before; anyone have an idea?