Strange experience many years ago

Strange experience many years ago
Time: early 1980s around 7 or 8 pm
Location: southeastern Michigan
When I was in high school we lived in a rural area in southeastern Michigan. The roads were dirty and the houses were quite far apart. I was home alone, as my parents had taken my siblings to an event about an hour from home. We had a tri level home with bay windows in the kitchen facing the back yard, and a large window facing the front yard skirted by a small concrete porch that extended from the front door to the garage. The phone on the wall was in the kitchen against the wall that separated the living room. I was talking to a friend on the phone that lived a little over a mile away to the west on the far side of a lake. When I looked out the front window I seen the thickest fog I have ever seen. However, when I looked out the southeastern facing window in the kitchen facing the back yard and neighboring empty field I noticed what looked like a mini sun over the field. I do not know when it appeared, disappeared or how long it was there. I did ask my friend if it was foggy where she was and she said she could see across the lake. It never seemed to move, but it was a bright orange ball that seemed to pulsate, but remain motionless otherwise. It was probably about 50 feet above the ground and 20 feet wide. I have absolutely no memory of being taken or any interaction with beings, but sense a feeling of missing time. I have multiple diagnosis of genetic and autoimmune issues, but am not sure is this is relevant. My father has been passed away for decades but he used to sit at the kitchen table basically every night and claimed to have seen strange lights in the sky and yard quite often. Just wondering if anyone else has had an experience similar to this.