I stepped out to my small concrete backyard, and looked up to the stars as i usually did at night. There is a large view of the sky with the only interruption being the treetops i can see stretching out from the large trees in the front yard. i had turned off the backporch light as i stepped outside, for a better view of the sky. i looked straight up. approx 5 seconds after looking up i saw something in the corner of my right eye. Both eyes immediately locked on a rectangular shaped object, black in color, with 2 smaller grey rectangles on each end, inside the large black one. It moved so smoothly. The object was silent and had no lights on. i couldn't tell if it was small and just above the tree line (approx 75 ft), and measured 8 ft. across, or if it was extremely high and very, very large. As it disappeared from view I sidestepped to the left, into a planter box, to see if the object would appear on the other side of the branches. The object either disappeared, or, turned slightly to it's right and a new course would be out of my view. This was not one of those toys you can buy at radio shack, fly around an area and shine lights while sounding like a helicopter. i knew i had seen something really awesome, really amazing. i felt very lucky to have stepped out when i did. i didn't hear anything else about this from anyone or anything.