We were in the living room about to take our toddler to bed when she looked out the window that faces south and indicated to us that she saw a star. being a very cloudy night, we looked, rather incredulous, and saw a bright starlike object hovering in front of the clouds. at first we thought it was simply a satellite, but we soon realized it wasn’t behaving as a satellite would. the object changed colours (and shape) frequently, and was very bright, but it didn’t move. we couldn’t seem to stop looking at it. we all ran upstairs to look at it from a back bedroom window, but visibility was better on the main floor, so we returned to the living room. i then quickly messaged my sister “ufo!”, but when i went to use facebook messenger again later, i was suddenly signed out of chat and the message i had written to her was gone. at times i could make out very faint rings encircling the object that would then vanish; the best way i could describe them would be that they were like very thin smoke rings. my so couldn’t see the rings in the night’s sky. it began to make me feel sick to my stomach and very scared, and our toddler began crying, although we had tried to act normally so as not to frighten her. afterwards, i felt uneasy and nervous. then, the object seemed to flicker out of view suddenly, and before we knew it, it was just gone.