I got back a little while ago from watching the showers with my wife and sister. The sky was crystal clear with not a cloud in sight, but the high winds in the mountains made it uncomfortable to stay for long. We saw maybe a couple dozen meteors altogether over the span of a couple of hours, and somewhere around 6 of those were very bright with long tails that persisted in the sky for a moment. If I had my bearings right, most of the ones we saw were far in the horizon to the west, traveling west. We could also clearly see the Milky Way and it was very beautiful. Most of the meteors we saw 'followed' the direction of it down towards the horizon. One meteor to is one that went the clear opposite direction of all of the others and seemed to pulse lightly a couple of times before dissipating. It looked like chunks were breaking off of it and causing a flare-up as the additional rock material was exposed to the atmosphere.
On top of the meteors - we all observed some "UFO" type activity. It was when we first pulled over to skywatch, the wind was blowing very hard and we were trying to pull our blankets around us and sit down. My sister and I saw a bright orange ball or orb very close to us. I saw something about as big as a marble zoom by within a few feet of me, and it looked like a "magic" fireball in that it simultaneously appeared to burn, while not appearing to burn. It was multicolored but an orangish-red was the predominant color. Towards the back of the orb (on the side of it opposite its direction of travel) it was black. My sister said she saw something bigger, almost softball in size, but further away. My wife didn't see it at the time, but later we relocated and my sister and I retreated into the car while she stayed laying in a patio chair and she saw something fairly close, but up in the sky and that matches what my sister and I saw. I also saw something else the first time, that my sister didn't see. A peak in front of us light up bright orange for a quick second, as if one of those orbs had flown by it and illuminated it. The color of light cast on the top of the peak was very much orange and not at all white or yellow like that of a headlight. Further, the face of the peak that lit up does not have a road on the opposite side, and it never illuminated any other time, and there were several cars that drove both directions.
Another, smaller thing is that at the second place we pulled over at there was some small animal very close to the car. It looked like a rabbit, and acted like one, but it was one heck of a big rabbit, especially for something like 8-9K feet up a mountain. I'm a fairly avid camper and I have never seen a rabbit that big in this state (Colorado), but perhaps I just haven't been looking hard enough. In New Mexico I once saw a jackrabbit that was about the size of this thing. I went to approach it but it kept backing up. It was acting just like I see small city rabbits acting, except much bigger.
All in all, it was a pretty cool experience for all of us. Kinda wished I had checked the weather further and worn warmer clothes so we could've stayed longer. We might go back tomorrow night, better prepared.