2018-07-28 - Lebanon, OR - Light

Early Saturday morning (7/28/2018), I went outside for some fresh air and to observe the night sky like I have done numerous times. After a few minutes of being out there, I began to notice a 'solid reddish object' moving east to west in a unusually slow manner. I do live a few miles (as the crow flies) from a rural airport that only accomodates single engine small prop planes. I see these type of planes coming and going all hours of the night but they always have blinking aviation lights and you can hear their engines quite easily anytime they are nearby. However, this object had no blinking lights and seemingly was not making any type of sound.

After its slow approach in my general frontal view from east to west, it seemed to almost come to a stop and then began a descent towards the ground in an angled or arched movement however, but not in a straight downward descent. At that point, I lost sight of it as it descended down below thebroof/tree/horizon lin! e that was out in of me in the near distance. In summation, I believe that this was not a typical aircraft (small prop plan or helicopter) and that it was under some sort of intelligent control.