Sabine left this open for comment: Palomar transient events.
If we don't believe in aliens, and today we should believe less in aliens than they did before Sputnik, the answer seems obvious - to me anyway. The early Soviets were covertly researching how to get Sputnik to work. At the time, the US was concentrating on aerodynamics (and nukes of course) and not on space so much. Even ICBMs were designed to land ballistically upon Russia, not to circle the planet back to the Americas. That is why Sputnik was a shock: it leapt frog all over DARPA.
If the Soviets launched a sat that was broken and not circling the planet many times, that didn't count and the Soviets basically hoped the US wouldn't see 'em.
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