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re: no luck...

Yeah, I checked, and there were about a dozen "Cosmos rockets," which clutter up near space quite a bit. Any one of those could have done that.

On further thought, though, I would suspect a satellite. The rounded surfaces of discarded boosters tend to produce a rhythmic "fade in, fade out" appearance moving across the sky. Brilliant flashes tend to be more common in objects with flat surfaces, particularly sheets or arrays of solar panels.

Iridium satellites are famous for this, and their configuration and attitudes are so well known that their "flashes" can be predicted, and are shown on that same site.

The list for November 10th for Honolulu can be found here. There are at least two candidate satellites. Next time take note of stars nearby. You are probably far more familiar with the night sky than I am.

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