I saw something similar to what is described back in the early 90’s. I was visiting family out on the west coast near Laguna Beach. A gated community in a valley south of El Torro MAS.
Being on eastern time, my body clock got me up at my usual time, 6AM EST. Made coffee and went out to to the pool area to sit and have coffee and look at all the stars. A better sky than I’m used to.
I’m looking to the East up at about 10~11 o’clock when I noticed a group of stars shimmer a bit. It was a brief shimmer, localized. Could have been a heat bloom from somewhere but at that hour? Then movement caught my eye to the north (the valley runs more or less, north to south) and I turn to see a red ball in the sky. It seemed to hover a second or two and then changed course and altitude, west and down and disappeared behind the hills. The whole event lasted at most about 10~ 15 seconds. The ball altered speed and course. Didn’t hear anything. And later I learned that valley bounced sound around from anywhere that would have hit it walls like water flowing through a trough.
I have no idea what I saw, but I saw it, and it was flying.
Here’s mine: It was during lunch and I was looking out my window at the sky; it was bitter cold with a wind that had cleared off everything and left the sky deep blue. I first noticed a white ball with about the magnitude of a tennis ball slowly moving eastward, at a fairly slow pace(at about 10 o’clock). While I was trying to figure out what that was, all of a sudden a huge, shiny (metallic) military type plane came into view, and I was astonished at how slow it was moving. Then, in a matter of two or three seconds, it vanished into thin air.
He said he was sitting on his back deck enjoying the sunshine and looking up into the sky when he spotted a silver object that was just hovering way up there. He said he just sat there watching it for about 20 minutes.......
But he said what was really eerie was the fact that he had no memory of watching it until a week later..........