While all of this sounds extremely imaginative, and would appear to have zero scientific relevance (a fact to which I agree), it does have relevance to living beings, who, unlike science, depend upon a vastly broader set of inputs and evaluative capacities (which, indeed, science itself also depends upon). Thus, while my response may -not- be scientific, this does not automatically dismiss it as non-meaningful.

@sylvia: I can supply trust credentials of the kind you seek. You may contact me by leaving a comment on my blog site with your email address (which I will moderate out so that no one else ever sees it) (dreamknots.blogspot.com) .

First of all, 2010 AL30 was nowhere close to be visible by naked eye. It reached only 14th magnitude, i.e. it was about 1,500 times fainter than objects you can see with naked eye. Second of all, once it has passed the perigee its elongation decreased rapidly, i.e. its apparent position (as viewed form the earth) is now too close to the Sun, so that not even the biggest telescopes can see it.

I have checked heavens-above.com (a brilliant site) for southern california yesterday around 7:15pm. There was no ISS pass visible from california on Jan 27, but it could have been an iridium flare (I would need your precise location to check for those). Iridium flares can reach -8 magnitude, i.e. they are 25 times brighter than venus at its best (about 380 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky).

btw, what does that have to do with 2010 AL30?