Insomnia o'clock, giant flash in the sky

[Saucer51]

I'm sitting in an armchair in my study, sleeping upright because I have a chest infection. But I'm wide awake due to my coughy and wheeziness and have just seen a big flash out of my window. The window gives an uninterrupted view but it didn't seem like lightning that usually fills up the sky or even the room. It seemed to be an large ovalish shape burst of light that may have been high up in the stars. I'm sure all you good Cab'ers are asleep right now but when you read this, could anyone of an astronomic persuasion let me know what it might have been. Another Tunguska?
I'm off to Google now.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

The infection has spread to your brain.

[Neil]

[Saucer51]

A night of stellar flashes.

[Harry Badger]

I'm disappointed to see that Greg from Dreadzone, who I had an excellent time skanking around to at Nozstock in July, is on the Gervais cunt-train.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I was disappointed that dreadzone no longer had any of the advertised dread in their zone. Languidzone should be what they are known as now.

[Dead kate moss]

Why does Cuntvais ask for 'contact details' (to be posted publicly being the likely inference?) - oh, I'm sure he just meant Twitter handles or something. Didn't mean to get his army of twonks spreading personal info I'm sure.

Conversely, what if I were to ask people on Twitter to supply me with 'contact details' of someone who I was professing an urge to have a confrontation with?

[Saucer51]

More to the point, aren't you all in the wrong thread for monstering Gervais?

[Dead kate moss]

More to the point it was most rude of me not to express sympathy for your chest infection, seated sleeping arrangement & associated insomniacal unpleasantness. I really am very sorry.

Don't know about the UFO though, perhaps you have gone mental. Hope this helps.

[Saucer51]

More to the point it was most rude of me not to express sympathy for your chest infection, seated sleeping arrangement & associated insomniacal unpleasantness. I really am very sorry.

Don't know about the UFO though, perhaps you have gone mental. Hope this helps.

I'm very reassured now.

[BlodwynPig]

There was some space junk that fell to earth a few days ago - could be more of the same. Or an early firework set off by night time Badgers.

[Hangthebuggers]

Could simply have been an unexplained flash in the sky.

[doppelkorn]

Are you sure it wasn't your eyes going all funny?

[chocky909]

She wants to believe!

[SetToStun]

Do you have any unexplained gaps in your memory and a sore bottom at all? If so, I have a theory concerning what you saw...

[Saucer51]

My nostrils are sore! There's a red rash just beneath my nose!

[BlodwynPig]

My nostrils are sore! There's a red rash just beneath my nose!

Narco

[Treguard of Dunshelm]

My nostrils are sore! There's a red rash just beneath my nose!

Have you had sex with small_world? If so, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you...

[Uncle TechTip]

I wish 2013 would hurry up and arrive. Is it me or is this year getting slower and slower?

[Neville Chamberlain]

The most obvious explanation is that it's a ball of lightning bouncing off a strut.

[Ginyard]

Ball. Realism.

[SetToStun]

My nostrils are sore!

Perhaps your aliens were somewhat dyslexic.

[jfjnpxmy]

Next step: Mass blindness, plants killing every motherfucker and middle-class douchebags saving the world.

[mook]

I wish 2013 would hurry up and arrive. Is it me or is this year getting slower and slower?

it was only last week sometime i discovered it wasn't august! my perception of time is ballsed. now i know it's september it's almost october.

[TrenterPercenter]

This?

[Lost Oliver]

I think we've had at least two days stolen from us this year and I've even got facts to prove it.

Could the flash have been God's twinkling eye, or eyes?

The last time I saw a UFO, I tripped over a hedgehog only seconds later. Was this related?

[Obel]

Christ, a potentially interesting thread derailed to Gervais on the second fucking post.

[batwings]

I experienced something like that many years ago. I was looking up at a clear night sky when a bright beam of light seemed to flash directly out from the center of where I was looking, which was out into deep space. Never found out what it was. Could it have been a cosmic ray directly hitting my optic nerve? Is such a thing even possible?

No missing time or anything, unless you count the 90s.

[Jerzy Bondov]

This reminds me of the time I looked up in the sky and there was an alien spaceship there. Couldn't believe it.