As I lay down to go to bed one evening, I noticed an odd red light as I looked out my bedroom window. I wear corrective lenses (glasses) and my vision is quite poor without them. Having taken my glasses off for the evening, I quickly grabbed them from my nightstand and put them on. I then got out of bed and went to the window to get a better look. I was astonished to see a very round red object stationary in the sky at little more than tree top high. I stood at the window for a while watching the object. then I thought to go get my binoculars to get an even better view. I went downstairs and recovered them and returned to my room. WHAT A VIEW !!! I had the most incredible view of this object! I remember thinking " This is it... A U.F.O. I'm looking right at it!" The object was perfectly round it's image filled my field of view in the 8x50 binoculars. It was a rich molten red with black marble like lines in it ...like molten lava. The rich red colors ran together into lighter reds and a slight hint of orange color too. the colors seemed to be seperated by the bands of black marble. The outside edge of the object also had this black band. It was churning within itself like a minniature sun. At this time I went outside onto my deck and stood on a deck bench to get as clear of a view as possable . The view was no better as the object had already been in full view. I watched it for a few minutes more before I thought to get my camcorder and record it. I raced downstairs once again and retrieved my camcorder. I returned to the deck with the camcorder and proceded to film the object for several minutes. I was making silly comentary at the same time partly because I wes so very nervous and partley because it was so very quiet and still outside. I was so sure I was getting this all on tape. But when I later reviewed the footage all that I could see was "snow" , my comentary was on the aodio portion of the tape and that is all that I can give as proof of this encounter, there may be images in the tape that I am not able to see,I have not had it professionally analized. After a few more minutes the object moved off in a southwesterly direction,it moved very slowly away until it looked like a star,yet it could not have been more than a mile away at that time.this was at 1514 e. blossom Dr.Menoken,N.D.