My mother had the same issue, I went over one evening to see what she could be seeing, long story short one of the starlink satellites seems to blink off, on the east coast it was on the western sky at about 30 degrees above the horizon in autumn.

Im assuming that blinking is just rotation.

It's likely what you saw was a satellite being rotated such that it stopped reflecting light toward you.

We have something like 1000× more satellites in orbit today than 20 years ago and musk's starlink is putting up like a dozen a month in a straight line around the planet, the night sky is being contaminated like never before.

Black helicopters block starlight. One may have moved into your line of sight to identify you via retinal scan and possibly reprogram your visual cortex.

Space Station or reflection from space-debris?

You could tell us where in the sky it was. If you are often looking at the sky, you should be failiar with constellations. In this way, we could determine if it was really a star or planet that went out or maybe it was some kind of satellite in geosynchronous orbit.

Why are you going outside to pee?

It's happened to me too. There is some visual phenomenon to it. Someone smrtr thn me will have to explain it to you. Sorry to disappoint.

Instead of assuming you saw a satellite, I'll ask you. Did you follow this light source and did it seem to sail across the sky and disappear in about 1-3 minutes?