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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Dry-University-4978 on 2023-08-25 16:45:58+00:00.

I was in a rural area once and the night sky light up, as bright as the middle of the day, for a few seconds. We asked someone that was driving towards us a hundred miles away and he said he saw a comet that did the same thing.

Do comets do this? Just light up the night sky like that?

It was very exciting to see