Hello!
EDIT: SOLVED, someone posted the same event right as I was writing post. This is the post btw :D
Was looking at the sky from northern Italy looking southward at 10 pm local time, didn't think of photographing it so excuse my layman's terms.
Saw this thing flying towards west and am not able to actually identify what ir could be. At first it looked like a plane when it flies behind thin clouds, a sort of bright halo. But then it shifted and almost looked like those planes that drag a banner behind, if the letters were lit up?? Thought of possibly a satellite train but it was WAYYY too short to be that and also in the satellite trains you can actually see the singular satellites, plus never saw them in Italy? But then something odd happened, the one in front exploded? Idk how to describe it but it kind of expanded into a brighter conical cloud that then faded, the ones behind it disappeared soon too.
Tried looking around online theorizing if it could be a satellite launch (looking at it reminded me how gliders are dragged onto the sky by motorized planes and then sent off) but can't find any video clip that doesn't show an actual rocket, or maybe a satellite crash/re entry, but those look totally different.
By the way! Checking in the sub there's This video that shows what I think is closest to the explosion, except here it's constant and big, whereas what I saw lasted maybe 3 seconds? and it was MUCH smaller and instead of trailing behind it exploded forward.
Does anyone know what I just saw? I would have waved it off as a weird satellite train but that explosion really intrigued me, I'm not an actual stargazer, just like looking up and saw something that made me curious :) a