large ball of light, made no sound

I had just took our dog outside to do it,s duty,when i noticed a very bright lightat about 45degrees .I was facing south. The light was about 1 half mile away and seemed to be as large as a basketball helded at arms lenth. my dog just stood there and never took her eyes off of the light. just then i heard an airplane, it was to the west.the plane was circling to land at the akron airport to the north. the airplane then went towards the light, circled it and then came towards the airport to land.the light followed the plane ,it made no sound as it came right over me. I then went in the house and called the airport and asked them if they had seen the light ,they said that all they had seen was the airplane. thaank you ((name deleted))
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