Bright orange light, about the size of a pea at arms length, moving slowly from the west to NE. I was a soldier, stationed at Ft. Monmouth, NJ at the time of the sighting. As I walked west towards my barracks on a cold clear night in Dec., I first noticed the object at about 30 deg elevation. It moved steadly on the same course for about 20 seconds. Then, it abruptly stopped without decelerating for what seemed to be a minute or so. It abruptly restarted, at the same speed as before and remained on the same course. This behavoir repeated two more times. Then the object zipped up at about a 70 deg. angle towards the NE, getting smaller as it disappeared in about 2 seconds. During the observation period there was no sound, and no change in brightness or color.