About midnight, sat down on side of bed to go to bed. Noticed ayellowish light beam - such as a car turning around would project -shined on the house. No way is that possible I thought and got up tosee.Saw a blue-white light glowing from overhead...and flashing....like heatlightning. Could not see the sky directly due to an overhanging balconyin the way. Wondered why the "heat lightning" stayed so long in that oneplace...and began watching the flashing white orbs out my window. Knew they were w-a-ytoo large for fireflies, I kept trying to figure out what they were asthey blinked off and on. The overhead blue-white glow was also off andon again and still seemed like heat lightning. It had rained earlier andwould rain again, but it was not hot enough for heat lightning Ifigured.Still watched the orbs and they were floating 2nd floor high - where I was. Theyseemed to cover the 125-150 feet of the driveway out in front of the2nd floor deck...about 20 of them flashing off and on and moving about abit. Some a bit higher but mostly right in front of me. Surrounded bywoods on all sides it was very dark. Wasn't sure how much cloud coverwas involved but I noticed I could see the glow of the city lights overthe mountain top.I just could not figure it out. Was a bit scared and alot confused atwhat was going on. Was wondering why my dog was not barking. Then I wonderedif something had happened to him. Also, thought it may have been out of hisline of sight from inside the garage.No sound. Just "heat lightning" sporadic flashes from above that cornerof the house and those moving flashing white softballs...mostly at eyelevel with some seemingly a bit higher. One actually was a littlefarther out perhaps, but still close enough to be in the group.Decided to get a flashlight and go up one floor and step out onto thatbalcony to see if I could see people or anything. Noticed it was dark inback side of the yard as I passed the back door. Got upstairs and all Isaw was dark. Nothing. Returned, none the wiser, to the second floor where I first witnessed this, closed thecurtain and went to bed.Having recently lost a pet, for the next two days I tried to find information on pets that haverecently died passing over to the other side. I was wondering if thatwas what I had witnessed, but too many lights, also too large actually to bepet souls as research suggested. I could find nothing close to that event in searching forinformation in that direction.Finally told someone after 3 days. Theyfound online a similar happening to mine that had been reported on a UFO sitelast year.Light-bulb-moment:Having ruled out the pet transition theory, I now am searching for UFOinformation.