On the morning of 14 August before sunrise I went to a secluded area to watch the meteor shower. At one point, I noticed what at first seemed like a regular meteorite around the zenith point, but I soon saw that it was moving around. I'm familiar with the optical illusion that stars sometimes seem like they dance around, so that was my second thought, but this one moved around so much that it seemed clear as day that it was actually moving.

It was a neon coloured light that was about as big as a bright star.

I tried out a few tests to see if it was really moving. The first thing I did was put a finger in front of my eye, slightly underneath it. It soon went behind my fingernail, through which I could still see it, and then disappeared completely behind my finger for a few seconds before appearing again and dancing around above the area covered by my finger. One may think that I was unable to hold my finger steady, but if that was the case, I would constantly see it appear and disappear. I made sure to keep a reasonable buffer space between the object and my finger. Instead it calmly went behind my finger, hung around for a few seconds, then went back to a higher point. The distance that it covers in position to my finger is out of proportion with how much my finger naturally vibrates. The former was a couple of centimeters while the latter is millimeters.

My second test was to look at it for a moment and to then fix my gaze at the same point through willpower. I felt that I was simply staring at a single point. It immediately left that point and danced around near that point.

I also tried to track its position in relation to actual stars but it wasn't too close to any others. I did get the impression that, by the end of me observing the object, it was closer to a few of the stars than at the start. It was around this point that the sky began to turn blue and the stars became invisible. The object I was observing was one of the last ones to turn invisible.

There was a fourth, unintended test. As I started walking away I looked up to the sky one last time and thought I spotted it again. It disappeared to the right of my vision at an accelerating pace. But as I looked to the zenith point again it came back, and I still saw it with my eyes closed. Clearly this was the impression of the object burnt onto my retina so to speak. The lights that you saw lingers on in your vision and it escaped my field of vision simply because I was trying to track it. But what this shows is that it was actually off-centre. That doesn't happen when you simply stare at static lights.

One thing that further convinces me that this was a UFO is that it was the only object of which I had this impression of hovering around. If it's a natural optical illusion I could just pick out any star, look closely, and it would appear as something that's moving around. It moved around so much. It completely stood out from all the other objects.

What do you guys think this could've been? @JasonCarswell @Tom_Bombadil @newJiminy