Bright red light with flashing white or blue lights, stationary, then very rapidily mooves away north

Looking due west from north end of city, aprox. 30 deg. above horizon. Bright red light with flashing white light, object was stationary for about 5 seconds. Grabbed a pair of binoculars from table, I had been bird watching earlier in the day so they were handy. It only took a couple of seconds to grab binocs., but object was gone. Two people saw similar object about a month prior, same time of night, same location in sky. Object was bright red light, with flashing blue and white light alternating. It was stationary for about two minutes then headed north at a very rapid speed .