Thanks, Robert!
I am VERY familiar with the Iridium satellite system!
In 1994 while in Germany in my back yard one night I saw, out of empty black space, a huge bright moving light appear, and slowly fade out of view. It scared the bejeebus out of me; I was convinced I saw a UFO. It was very bright, at least a -8 magnitude.
After I moved to Alabama, in about 2001, I saw almost the exact same thing one night. As I now had Internet access, I was able to search it, and that’s when I learned about the Iridium flares. I found a website called Heavens-Above.com, which has a program that can track Iridium flares and you can then go out and look in the sky at the coordinates and see one appear right before your own eyes, because, as you say, there’s always one above somewhere!
I did so and it was EXACTLY what I saw in 1994 and 2001. I have seen countless ones since, and even the space shuttle, the International Space Station and countless other satellites as Heavens-Above can track those for your location as well.
Yea, I’ve seen the flares also. I also sent a copy to Rush and Foxnews.