Tonight at about 7:30, in between intermittent clouds, I noticed a few random flashes of light. Some dim and amber, others bright white like a camera flash. It was around the M2 Messier Object and Neptune (At 11/8/12) in the sky. The flashes seem to be separate, within about a penny's radius if held out at arm’s length. Not exactly ever in the same spot.
I texted my friend that I was seeing the flash regularly in that area, so he ran out using Starchart and stared for a while. He called me back and stated that he, too, saw two flashes, one dimmer than the other, one being like a camera flash, but significantly lower in the sky than from what was my point of view. That can only mean that what is being seen is actually in the stratosphere, maybe Mesosphere at the most. Not deep space like I have suspected in the past. I've seen these flashes dozens of times over the years. Most of the time, a very faint, and slow moving object travels away from the flashes just after they appear. Tonight, I did not see that after effect.