In the summer of 1990s, did you see the spectacular celestial explosion in the overnight sky?

Something happened that I still don't understand. It exploded and lasted only about 3 seconds.

The description of "celestial body" should be this sentence? As far as I can remember, there are two candidate answers close to the description of the landlord.

One is iridium, which is Motorola's plan to launch a near-earth communication satellite. It plans to launch 77 satellites, just like the 77th iridium element, hence its name. Unfortunately, this plan died unfortunately, but it gave astronomy enthusiasts a good observation object. When the sun, iridium and observation points are in proper positions, the solar panel of the satellite will reflect sunlight to the ground, that is, iridium flashes. The flash will soar to a very high brightness in about 5- 10 seconds, and the highest brightness can reach -8 or even -9, even through thin clouds. The phenomenon described by the landlord, and shortly after dark in summer, all meet its conditions.

The second probability is much lower, and it is a fireball, facing the line of sight. If it does, there will indeed be a phenomenon similar to that described by the landlord. But the problem is that the probability is too low ... and if it does happen, you should be glad you didn't get hit, hehe. Imagine the scene where the fireball is facing the line of sight below. Is it like a star explosion?

The photo on PS is really a fireball seen in the field of binoculars (the bright red star on the left is Betelgeuse, and the constellation arrangement of the V star on the right is Bixing Group of Taurus) ... Regardless of the shooting technology for the time being, with such luck, it should not be a problem to buy a four-digit prize in the lottery.