I was smoking a cigarette at the rear patio of my girlfriends apartment at 7:20pm local time, when a brilliant white rapidly blinking light crossed the sky from south west to north east direction, with a directional change resembling a snake's slither. The blinking light travelled very quickly, too fast for a satellite pass, then it stopped abruptly, and hovered for some time maybe a minute or so. The Lights, Lights Multiple (as the brilliance of the strobe seemed to emanate from alternating point, very close to each-other) changed to Bright red as the object then descended, straight vertically, paused, descended further, like a falling leaf, paused, at which time I had to stand on a chair to view over neighbours roof, the object/light then shot off at high speed at that altitude (tree-top) toward the north east, out of view. My Girlfriend was in the shower when I first viewed the object, and I, very excitedly, asked her to wrap a towel around herself, and come out to see this thing. She did this, and also witnessed the object from the time it was descending for the first time. The sky was partly cloudy, but the object was in clear sky at first, and hovered long enough for the clouds to draw closer to it. The cloud-base was around 2000 to 3000 feet, and only when the cloud was in the same space did I realise that the object was smaller, and closer, than I had at first guessed, because it was just below the clouds before descending. It occurred to me that this might be a Drone, but was travelling very fast, over a long distance, in controlled airspace, and a drone is not a usual thing to see in this area, Day or Night.