Did anyone else see this object in the sky? july 26th or27th 2014?...Don't think it was a UFO but...not a falling star either.?

I live in Roseburg Oregon, about 11:00pm to 12:00pm on thre 26th or 27th of July I was out on my balconey looking up at the sky, about 12 to 15 degrees due north of directly overhead and I saw what I thought was a normal star but it began to get brighter and then even brighter and brighter over about 6 seconds and then it got very bright (staying in the same spot) then all of a sudden it just went out and wasn't there anymore. I tried to calculate the size of the light it was at it's brightest point by comparing it to something at arm's length and i would have to say it was about the size of a pea. Now, when I say it got very bright, I mean it was like a light bulb being viewed at a distance, not a flashbulb or something like that. It was like a lightbulb on a rheostat that was being turned up and then just switched off. Now I've seen alot of wierd things in my life, even trash that drops into the atmosphere and burns up, this was nothing like that. The entire reason I'm posting this at all is that two other people within a few block of here saw the same thing I did and said something about it yesterday and I overheard their conversation and took part in it with them, I was wondering if anybody in ANSWERS might have seen this saw well?...or have any idea what it could have been?