Object seen that had fast blinking white lights to solid red. It went from a motionless hover to a fairly speedy flight.

While driving northerly, we saw fast blinking white lights omitting from something in the sky.   It was hovering still at maybe 1k ft. off of the road and 1k-2k ft high.  
As we drove closer and became parallel to the object the lights turned solid red with a few slowly blinking white.  
We  made a few turns to get closer then it started moving south, then north/east, then south/east (like a spanned zigzag) somewhat fast.  We drove 65mph and went maybe 2 miles chasing it in the time it went roughly 10 miles.  Not crazy fast, but pretty fast from hovering at a dead stop 1k ft. in the air.
Source of report does not indicate the time, date, or state where the sighting occurred.  Source elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we have no means of contacting him or her.  Possible hoax??  PD