I used to live not far from the NATO military base so it wasn't so odd to see odd things in the sky, mainly recognition satellites :D By the way once something strange happened.
Me and a friend of mine were on the riverbank watching a partial solar eclipse. We were sitting on my friend's car eating chips and talking about this and that and, after the event, we decided to stay a bit more. Suddenly we noticed a light in the sky. At first glance we thought it was an airplane as long as our town is 50 kms from the airport. But that light, that we recognized as a silver flying object, after a straight trajectory, started zigzagging gathering speed and literally running towards our direction. We were so scared that we jumped onto our car and immediately drove back to home. After some seconds that thing disappeared.
The strangest fact is that, as long as many people in Italy were watching the sky to see the eclipse, we haven't been the only ones experiencing this thing. I have a blog talking about legends and misterious things and the day after we got a lot of emails of people who saw the same thing... From literally any area of Italy :O