Red and white or white and red running lights.

I'm from Hamilton, Ontario.  At the time, I was living on the west end mountain.  In the mid 70'S on a hot August summer night, I opened my back door of my house.  At the time, the airport had a curfew around ten or eleven pm.  I noticed what I thought was a plane but it was past the curfew.  I took a double look thinking it was moving but it was sitting in mid air.  The reason I noticed the thing in the first place was the running lights.  The running lights were two colors red and white.  They ran around the edge of the ship .  
The UFO was no more than hundred yards away and about forty feet off the ground.  I could see the shape of the ship without any mistake what it was.  The ship tilted down slightly on its right side and started to move sideways for a city block or so and stopped.  I don't know if I felt something in the air or if I saw the thing about to take off but the ship from a sitting position it took off in a blink of an eye.  My question I have always thought was that made by human's or was that alien made?  If you ever have chance to look at an u-tube video from 2011 of a UFO on a back a flat bed tuck, pretty much the some ship.  
Thank You
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