Bright light "explodes" then disappeared

EVENT DATE

May 25, 2015, 11:40 PM

LOCATION

Centralia, WA, USA

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SHAPE

Light

DURATION (NUFORC)

30 seconds(00:00:30)

WITNESSES (NUFORC)

2.0

CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)

NaN

NARRATIVE

On June 25, 2015, at approximately 11:40 PM, my boyfriend and I were standing on the balcony of The Great Wolf Lodge hotel looking east.  The sky was completely clear and I noticed that even though we were in a populated area that more stars were visible in Centralia than at home in Everett.  
As we were admiring the stars I pointed to a moving light.  I thought it was a satellite moving from the South to the north but just as I said, “Hey, look it’s a satellite,” it suddenly “flamed up” got extremely bright then disappeared out of sight.  Almost as though a rocket engine had engaged.  Not exactly sure what it was.  Very well could have been a satellite and we just got lucky and saw it burn up in the atmosphere.  
Wasn’t going to report but I haven’t been able to get it off my mind since.
Possible flare from an Iridium satellite?  PD

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