I was inside the lodge eating dinner. My friend Eric got me because he had seen something. In the Western sky over the ocean there seemed to be a distant, dull light moving near the horizon that clearly was not a planet or star. Then, large bright flashes of light, four in a vertical row, appeared in sequence towards zenith. The flashes appeared to have blue/green, red then a gold color. Their light was bright enough (perhaps close enough) to the water to reflect light on the surface like the Moon or a search light.I felt a calm, familiar presence from them. A second series, this time as many as seven, but more than four, going horizontally from W to S appeared soon after. This was the last observation about 7PM in the evening.