We went out to the woods from my buddy's house about 5 am hiking about 20 minutes to a cliff overlooking a holler with a creek at the bottom we cleared the leaves and hunkered down silent and waiting for the sun I just layed my head down on my backpack was looking up when I noticed a red orange yellowish light in the sky above the ridge right to the east of us less than half a mile away I immediately noticed it was hovering moving up and down left and right glowing real bright almost looked like it was growing glowing bright then looking smaller as it dimmed slowly I froze up in awe and fear once I broke from that I smacked my buddy to my right and said LOOK! He observed it for a short time then it shot up at a astonishing speed up to space in the south eastern direction my buddy said it was a life changing event and will remain a detailed memory of what happened this morning while we were hunting .... We were so tore up over it we went back to the house and didn't even hunt ..... We asked ourselves over and over again today what in the hell did we witness this morning....