I was in my front yard working on my tree stand and playing with my dog.The dog is a black lab and loves to chase after low-flying birds.I had been pointing out tree top level birds to her as they flew overhead when I saw what at first I thought was a hawk diving after a mouse or squirrel.The object was at approximately 45 degrees when I first saw it,and I watched it until it faded into the distance at about the same elevation in the opposite direction.There was no fireball, no trail behind it, and no sound. I waited for several minutes expecting to hear a sonic boom and also trying to understand what I had just seen. It was bronze in color with a lighter gold or copper in the center. It was visible through a 90 degree sector of the sky and was about 20 degrees north east from straight overhead from my position.It covered the entire distance in about two or three seconds.Hold a quarter-inch bead at arms length and that is the size it appeared in the sky. Afterwards, maybe five minutes or so, it finally soaked-in that either I had witnessed a very close call with an apparently large meteor, or I had actually seen a UFO. I was excited afterwards and since my wife was at work, I talked with my mother and sister about it.