(Also submitted to MUFON) Late Saturday night, 9/6/14, approx. 11:45 pm, I went to a neighbor's house to potty their dogs before bedtime. I led them to their long back yard, grass in middle (where we were), and a crop of 75 foot tall trees in back of the yard. Clear skies. I looked above treeline to admire the almost full moon and saw a glowing red oval sphere coming from behind the trees to the left (east) and crossing the sky just above the treeline. It seemed to be a solid, dense object, not just a light or orb - but the whole object glowed with an intense orange-y red light. Very bright, like a large rounded car taillight in the sky. There seemed to be a subtle darker line down the middle of the object, horizontally. And at the last second before I lost it, it seemed like I could also see a kind of swirling, churning at the middle of the object - some sort of rotation or flow of the color/light. Almost "molten" looking or liquid. It moved across the sky about the same pace as a commercial jet at cruising speed (600/700 mph). It took about 10 seconds to cross the opening in the trees. As I was watching it, I kept thinking I would see or hear something soon that would explain what it really was. But that never happened. The light never blinked or strobed (like an airplane's night lights would) and I knew I should be seeing white or green blinking lights too if it was conventional aircraft (and it would be a green light facing me going left to right anyway, not red). And it was pretty close or really large (if you held a pea at arm's length, you would get a sense of the size as I saw it). But I couldn't hear any motor or engine. Just the crickets in the woods. It eventually got to a denser cluster of trees to my right and it disappeared from my sight (it should've come out a little further along at another opening, but didn't, so maybe it turned sharply south and away from me. Or descended. I don't know). I went back to the same house the next afternoon, and took a picture of the same section of woods in the daylight - then used the computer to make a re-creation of what I saw. (see attached picture). Good thing that large tree in the middle is dead, or I wouldn't have seen it much at all!

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