slowly flashing "star" in the sky?

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This morning about 6:00AM I was outside and looking South , up maybe 30-40 degrees from the Horizon I saw what looked like a star, only it was flashing on about every 4-10 seconds for about 2 seconds, then it would go out.  It flashed about eight-10 times then stopped and I never saw it again.

This was stationary- it never moved from the spot I saw it so it was not an airplane.  It went completely OFF for 5-10 seconds at a time, so it was not a pulsar or star being seen through atmospheric weirdness. There were no clouds (no other stars flashing) 

I tried looking this type of thing up on google but only found descriptions of pulsars which "shimmer" not flash on and off.

I have seen satellites fly over before, and it was not a satellite (maybe geosynchronous though?)

The closest thing I could find is a "solar sail" which is a new thing NASA put up I think, it "flashes" as it tumbles end over end in Space, but it MOVEs- not stationary.

Obviously its not a UFO cause it didn't FLY. (unidentified flying object) 

Anyone have any idea?

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... Your Y!Pulse says that you're from Georgia, so I set up my Stellarium 0.11.0 to 6:00AM, Georgia and looked toward south.

What I saw was that Sirius was located right at the south with apparent magnitude -1.45, which is pretty bright (the brightest star in the night).
But it doesn't match your description, since it didn't disappear...

Next thing I found was NOAA 15 satellite, at altitude of about 12 degrees, visible, but lower than what you said...
I believe that you probably saw this,though.

Download Stellarium, it's cool.

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slowly flashing "star" in the sky?

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