Got around to listening to Peter Davenport's appearance this week with George, turns out a friend and I saw a UFO that was reported to NUFORC by two different people last Saturday night. We were out in a rural park near Yellow Springs, OH (roughly ten miles east of WPAFB) watching the meteor shower, it was around 2245 EST. I noticed a very bright flash almost directly overhead, but I saw no navigation lights one would normally see with an aircraft. The light flashed several times over the next ten minutes or so. The intensity of the flashes varied, with time between flashes variable as well. Whatever it was moved in a random manner, there was no clear path of flight, kinda like a butterfly. There was no sound associated with the object. My friend immediately called up the "SkyGuide" app on his tablet to see if there was a satellite or other space junk in that part of the sky (none), I called up "FlightRadar24" to see what air traffic was in the area. The app did identify a couple high flying commercial jets overhead during this period, but they were easily distinguishable from what were we seeing. We also looked for whatever it was through 8x binoculars (friend) and a first generation NVS (me) but couldn't locate it due to its unpredictable flight path. It eventually just quit strobing.
No way to tell the size, speed, or altitude of what we saw, but it did appear to be quite high in the sky. My buddy is a longtime astronomy buff, and I have a very good knowledge of aircraft and their performance characteristics. If I was a betting man, my best guess is we were looking at an electric motor powered drone with a strobe attached being flown by someone looking to hoax those out watching the meteor shower. Who knows?
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