It was 8:30 p.m. when my friend Todd decided to cut his visit short and go home. I accompanied him outside and as we both stood there talking, I happened to look up in the sky (approx. 90°) and spotted something strange in the sky.

I saw what looked like a single bright flash*, then barely noticed a second one from the corner of my eye.

As Todd looked on, I told him I was going upstairs to get my binoculars.

When I came down, he said he'd seen two more flashes and told me to point my binoculars in the direction of the Big Dipper. He said the flashes seemed to be heading that way in a straight line.

As we both looked up, a man in a pickup truck stopped next to me and asked what we were looking at. I told him what we saw and he stood there for a second or two then, before driving off, suggested I call the paper to report this because he reads the paper a lot and would like to read about it!

I kept looking up but never saw them again.

In total, we estimate we saw four flashes at different points in the sky. These looked similar, but brighter than those I had seen during the summer of 1991.

* I call these lights "Jumpers" because they seem to flash once in one spot, then flash again somewhere else...sometimes a third or fourth time, then disappear for good. These are not the lights of an aircraft, helicopter or satellite.