it was 10:30pm on 7/12/2013 while letting my dog out i was standing in my drive talking to my son when this ball dropped out of the clouds. the brightness of it is what caught us. we watched it droop and then come to a stop. as it drooped though i noticed it had a light blue flamed tail coming off the top. then when it came to a stop the tail came down into it. it hovered for a few seconds then moved quickly to the left again with a tail coming out from the right and then when it stopped the tail moved back into it. the tail would appear each time it moved. then it moved extremely fast to the right and stopped once again just hovering. then slowly moved back to center and stopped. this is when i started to take mental notes. the center of it was bright sun orange and moved. the only way i can describe it is it moved like lava. out side the sphere around the edge line was a light blue glow i guess like a radiant heat coming from it. the size was huge. if you were standing beside a commercial airliner that's the size it was but at two to two and a half miles out. so i'm sure if it was right over me it would of been much larger. the sound... none. nothing came from this thing. at all. it is very quit in our nieghborhood and there was nothing else in the sky around it. i made a note to look around for anything else in the sky. once it came back to center it stayed for a few more seconds then dropped down making a u shape in the sky. then in tenths of a second shot off due west and was gone. i know what it wasn't, i just don't know what it was.