UFO Sighting in Lino Lakes, Minnesota on July 7th 2015 – Multiple flashes of bright white light in north/northest sky

Standing on my deck at about 0215am with my wife after having called police for suspicious activity in my neighborhood (they had just left moments before the sighting), I saw a flash of bright white light in the north/slightly northeast sky. The light looked as it would if somebody had a single bulb, bright white LED flashlight at a distance and flashed the button once, but it was high in the sky. I asked my wife if she saw it and she said no. Then it flashed again in the exact same spot and she saw it this time. I then grabbed binoculars to try and look closer to the area of sky where the flash came from and was not able to find the area when my wife saw it a second time (which would have been the third flash). A minute or so later she went back into the house, and I saw it again, this time much lower on the horizon and closer to directly north. No sound ever accompanied the flashes and we never saw it again.