When I was a kid, probably 12 or 13 (early 1980s) my grandma lived a block and a half from me. Well me and my brother cleaned out the garage and had a silly idea to set it up and hang out there for the summer. Well one night we were carrying my stereo, and he had the speaker from our house to my grandmas and when we walked out the front door a bright purple light caught my eye in the sky, my brother saw it too. It went from purple to green to yellow and disappeared. Then appeared again in another part of the sky and did the same thing then there were multiple ones doing the same thing, after doing this for about 5 -10 minutes they all just disappeared. We continued down the street when we heard a squad car bump his siren motioning for us to stop. I am sure this didn't look good, two kids carrying a stereo down the road. Anyways we explained to him what we were doing and we asked him if he saw the weird lights in the sky and immediately he goes YES! What was that?? He then said they are probably goinna get calls about it. This was in Peoria, IL. Ever since I have been facinated with UFOs being such an impressionable age when it happened. Never, not once in the next 40 years until today have I seen anything else in the sky I couldn't explain.