I was smoking a cigarette on a mostly clear freezing cold winter night looking at the stars, and watching planes flying overhead. In between my neighbor's house to the west and another house, I saw what I thought was a single gold/copper light coming from a plane headed in my direction. This was not uncommon because it was near an establish flight path directly over my house. I watched it come closer, and it looked like it was gaining altitude. I looked down at the snow at my feet and around my yard for a minute, and when I looked back up at the light it had turned into two lights side by side. It looked like it was still headed in my direction and slowly gaining altitude. The lights did not flash like normal airplane lights, the seemed to almost shimmer like a star. Thinking that it was still a plane, and how far apart the lights seemed to be, I thought that the lights represented the end of each wing. It gave it the appearance that it was really close. I didn't hear a sound coming from the object. As it was gaining altitude the lights seemed to tip up and down, like if they were the tips of a plane, that it was having a little bit of trouble staying stable. It was quite windy out that night with gusts of wind. It got so close to my neighbors house that I thought it would make contact and crash. My neighbor's house is only .03 miles away so it is very close. As I watched it, it disappeared from view blocked by this house. I waited a couple of minutes expecting it to clear the house, or crash but I never saw the lights again. Again, there was not a sound.