There were nine or ten of these object flying everywhere and seemed to come from the dull star in the West.I took my dog out really late last night, when I noticed a different colored star in the sky, kind of dull looking, West in the sky. Then I noticed that there was an object that had come out of nowwhere by the dull looking star.I first thought that it was a plane. Then it moved in quick zig-zag and stopped and continued to go East across the sky, it had red and white flashy lights on it and moved much to fast to be a plane!! And there were more of whatever that was flying through the sky and coming out of the dull looking star.The object got lower and lower and then looped around and went straight down infront of me, it was probably 40 feet away. The object was straight up and down with red lights on it and white flashy lights on the bottom of the object. It seemed to be stopped in the air about 10 feet from the ground. The red lights on it reminded me of the towers you see for planes to land at night.I was so scared I could hardly move, I managed to back up and get in the door, I ran down the stairs to get my mother up to see these things. When we got back outside, the object that was infront of me was back up in the sky and there were 9 or 10 of them flying all over. They almost looked like planes but then they would stop, or zig-zag, or if one was going East it would suddenly stop and start going West and then stop and continue East again. They seemed to mainly all be flying towards the East.My mother was trying to rationalize what see was seeing, she would say maybe the government is testing something new, but the UFO's were all flying from something in the sky.I woke my sister up next to see the UFO's and she decided to get the binoculars out, but we couldn't catch any of the moving objects. Then I looked at the star they were coming from. My sister looked after I did and we both saw tiny green dots where the star looked like it was. The dots seemed to be lighting up whatever it was, a ship, a run away for the UFO's? I bought a video camera so if this happens again we can record it!!((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))