Red blinking light then short beam scanning surroundings.I was sitting outside in front of my apartment complex, and it was very cloudy with low and high thick clouds. The clouds broke to where I could see in between the high and low ones, and I saw a red light flash one time. Then, an object of a shape I couldn't make out, shined a beam of light from what looked like the front of the shape, scanned in front of it or on the side (couldn't make out shape of craft) as if to see if anything was in front of it. The beam was a short spotlight, it didn't spread between the clouds, only right in front. Then the craft slowly went through the clouds, it wasn't fast at all. Like it was gliding almost.