Seen A Star Disappear Tonight.

[RaymondPerez]

I was with my girlfriend in this place called Water Fire Park (in Providence, RI). So we are just sitting there talking to each other, looking at the nice buildings surrounding the water area. I decide to start looking up at the sky. To my left there is this bright star, and to my right there is this other bright star. While talking to my girlfriend I see that the right star does this flash thing, then it dims, it brightens up again, and then it just starts getting dimmer, and dimmer until it was fully gone. It took less then 5 seconds for the star to fully be gone. I waited there with my girlfriend for like 5 mins to see if I could see a lil bit of it, but nothing showed up. It kind of left me surprised for a couple minutes since I have never seen anything like that before.

[adobetony]

not saying you're bluffing, but were you anywhere near an airport?

[Tormod]

Good suggestion. There is an airport due south according to Google Maps:

 

It could also have been a meteor or even a satellite. How sure are you about the flashing? Could it have passed behind clouds from your POV?

[Robert Angstrom]

Your description sounds like an Iridium flare. The name comes from a series of communication satellites called Iridium because these are the usual sources but the flare can come from any satellite with a large array of solar panels. The flares are usually seen in the early evening or in the hours before dawn but rarely around midnight. Flares are caused by sunlight reflecting from the solar panels (think mirrors in space) and some flares are bright enough to be seen during the day. The light is highly focused and it may look like a major stellar event at one point but be invisible to observers a mile away so you have to be in the right spot at the right time to see a flare but they are not unusual.