Warwick, Rhode Island Jan/Feb 1978 Red Orb

It was 1978, (Jan 25th-Feb 5th 1978)two weeks before the big Blizzard.  The place was Warwick, Rhode Island, the Buttonwoods/Appanoag Section.  It was sometime late at night or early morning.  My parents were sleeping. I went to the bedroom window.  I observed round (like a ball) light, slowly decending to the ground.  The distance I'd guess was about a city block away.  Since I was a child, I said to myself, "Oh a plane light fell off". I had not heard of UFO's, etc. The next day I went to my babysitter's house.  I told he about the "red plane light" in a nonchalantly way.  It was not a big deal to me.  The babysitter's husband, worked at TF Green airport in Warwick about a mile away.  When I recall his uniform it had decoration like an Airforce uniform.  I guess he might have been in the service somehow.  The babysitter told her Husband what I saw. The Husband came home and I overheard him telling his wife there was a lot of phone calls about the red light and that no airplanes lost lights.  He proceeded to question me about it.  I simply told him that I saw an airplane light fall. He made a phone call and then returned to work. As an adult now, I realize that an airplane light, if it fell off a plane, would not still be lighted up red.  I researched old newspapers for any mention of this incident.  For all the phone calls there supposedly were, not one mention in the local Providence Journal Bulletin.