Last night, Jan 4, 2014, just as I fell asleep, my wife said look at these lights. What color do fire flies emit? I said YELLOW. These are apple red. At arms length, the 3 objects appeared to be about 1 3/8 inches in diameter. They were roundish but not perfectly round. They were the color of an apple. Originally they were close to each other, and high in the sky. This was about 9:00PM. Then two of them went up and then to the right. The other one went to the left rapidly, then just disappeared. Originally they were about 45º above the horizon, byt later ascended to about 60º. I rule out balloons because they would have gone in the same direction, not opposite directions. I have been a UFO investigator since 1960.