Thought to have been an air plane until it came closer to my house. Slowed down. Descended to around 20/30 above tree line.

Open the living room curtains to see if the winter weather had started, we were expected to have ice and wet drizzly stuff. Notice what I thought was a plane west of my house. As it started to come closer I realized it was a ball of fire almost in the shape of I kid you not a stingray. As it got to the actual city of maize it's slowed down and descended to about 30 to 50 ft above tree level. And when I'm looking up it is just fiery substance. No actual lights that I could tell and no other material that I could tell. It has no sound.I go to get my camera and as soon as I snap the photo it's gone past my house. I run inside to tell my husband who is asleep and at that point I'm shaky and almost in tears. I calm down for a couple seconds decide to go look out my back window which is facing East and there it is. And coming towards it is an actual airplane. So I run and get my husband and tell him to come see within the 30 to 45 seconds it took us to get there it was gone. And the plane was gone.
My eyes after seeing this thing hurt for the rest of the evening into the next night.
I'm still trying to understand the materials of it's being and why slow down above my house until I try to get a picture.