I was outside at approximately 9:30 p.M. talking on my cell phone gazing at the stars. upon completing my call i went in the house, set down my phone down and decided to go back outside to view the stars, hoping to see a satellite or shooting star. i was looking up for about five minutes when i noticed an orange, what i thought was a refection in a tree. i said to myself, what could be reflecting orange out here and looked back toward the house to see if there was a source. there were no lights on. i looked back, took one step to the left to see what it was and observed the most stunning thing i have ever seen. it was a perfect, orange, translucent sphere the size of a basketball cruising along from the south, houston, heading north at approximately 25 degrees above the horizon. i was utterly dumbfounded. i have star gazed my whole life and been to every air show for the last twenty years. i have never seen anything like it. it had a translucent appearance with some variance in the surface color. i immediately tried to discern if it was manmade. it was so plainly visible i could not see anything to make me think it was manmade. there was no sound and it just floated along with slight up and down movements. i moved around the trees and kept in view for approximately forty five seconds. i yelled for my friend to come out, but by the time he made it out and looked it went behind the trees to the north. the most amazing thing i have ever seen. it was surreal.