I didn't see any of the multi-coloured ones. They were white and simply flashed across the sky in the blink of an eye. It would have been in 2010 and the Moon was 2 days from new, so skies were dark. There were no street lights and the nearest neighbour was 100m away so no light pollution from other houses. I do recall saying "oh, there's one..... it's gone!" and then a few minutes later, "there's another.... it's gone!" and it went on like that.
I was unlucky enough to have only ever seen the Northern Lights once and then they were white. Not the multicolured displays you seen in pictures and on TV. But I did spend night after night looking at the planets including the moons of Jupiter, Andromeda Galaxy and even ISS as it moved slowly across the night sky through a pair of powerful binoculars I bought. I once saw 6 planets in one go - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter and of course the one I was stood on, Earth!
I could often view the night skies through the velux windows in my house, so I didn't even have to spend the night in the cold. Unfortunately in mid-summer, very little was observable, because the night skies never went completely dark for about 6-8 weeks
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