Bright flashes - #18123 ?

From: Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:18:03 PDT

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    Yesterday while waiting for USA 129 I saw two bright (-3?) flashes
    in the corner of my eye, outside the binocular view. I timed them
    as 19:40:37 and 19:41:07. I decided to skip USA 129, and search for
    the flasher. A third flash occurred 19:41:37, same brightness, but
    I couldn't find the satellite (30.0 seconds between flashes?).
    It was near RA 15:00 dec +30, and  appeared to be moving slowly S.
    
    From mccants.tle, a good candidate is 87-53A #18123 DMSP B5D2-3.
    
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