My 5 year old daughter saw something floating around the air outside the back windows of our house. She asked me what the "red thing" in the backyard was. I went over to look thinking it was a bird maybe on the fence - I asked her what she was looking at. She pointed up in the sky and I looked up to see it. Immediately I told her that it must be a red balloon floating in the sky. But it was intensely metallic. Not see through at all. No lights. It was seemingly "floating or swaying" in the sky. I had been outside all day, and the wind has been intense, so then I started wondering why it wasn't being blown about. I noticed it wasn't rising or falling either. An inflated ballon would be rising - a deflated balloon would eventually be falling. It was doing neither - just swaying a little to the west then back east. I was never more than 15 degrees out of my view in its motion. It was also a square. Didn't look like a cube, simply a square. I wondered if it was a balloon, why wasn't it rotating as it's being blown around.
I went to look for our binoculars and was gone no more than 30 seconds, when I came back it was much farther off in the distance, but in the same 15 degrees of view. It was too far away to capture a picture. After a few minutes, it eventually just got too far away for me to still see it.
There was no fear or sense that someone was wrong or "off". My daughter wasn't alarmed in any way. In fact, it wasn't until after I had initially stared at it for about a minute that I started asking myself all of the questions above. It was vivid red in a clear blue sky, right after 7:00pm, before dusk, well before sunset.
