My girlfriend and I had decided that after dinner we would like to go stargazing in a pretty remote area near Lake Isabella. After arriving and laying on the car my girlfriend said she had never been stargazing before. After giving her a brief description of the way I usually go about it, she immediatly noticed that the star she was focused on was moving. I asked her to point it out to me with the flashlight. After she did I was amazed, the object was moving in a swimming like motion around a cluster of stars. It stopped and started, all throughout the time we watched it. It would make a circle and then stop, or make a swimming motion, then move to the left or right in a straight line. After about 30 minutes or so of watching it I came to the conclusion that it was in fact something I had never seen before while stargazing and began flashing it with a flashlight (which I believed would have no effect whatsoever). Thats when things got a little more intense. We were still focused on the object in the sky, when a huge blue flash lit up the tree tops to our left, which shocked us. We were not 100% sure if the 2 events were related, but seemed enough like they were that we left right afterward. Once we left neither of us could believe what we witnessed and were still a little freaked out from the flash of light. We got home safe with no further events.