Flaming red orange orb floated about tree-top height through the neighborhood, became oblate and disappeared.

On August 22, 2021, in mid afternoon (maybe about 5pm Eastern, Chesapeake VA), I went to take the trash out in my backyard. The weather was nice and clear.
I saw what I initially thought was a plane about to crash, slowly coming towards me from across the street and neighborhood. The large-looking object was spherical shaped, red-orange in color, and had fuzzy edges, like a flaming orb. It floated above the neighborhood roof tops at tree height (about two stories in elevation), moving at about a walking or jogging pace, directly towards me -- moving east to west.  I saw it for less than a minute, perhaps about 30 seconds.  As it got closer, the size actually got smaller, which I thought was especially unusual. When it got to be about 60ft away from me, directly over the street out front, the size appeared at that point smaller, perhaps the size of a hot tub (6ft diameter). I immediately went inside to get my iPad and tell my husband.
When I got back outside, I didn't see it turn, but I saw that the object was now over my neighbor's backyard (to our north), and it's direction of travel had become more northerly, as opposed to westerly. It was moving north toward the Indian River.
Its apparent size had also changed. Although I can't estimated the size it appeared, I know it took up about one fourth of the visual size it previously was (previously looked about 6feet over the street).
The shape had also changed. It was more oblate, or flatter: more lens shaped, rather than spherical. I can't remember the color/texture the second time, as I was focused on getting a picture of it with my iPad. As I took the picture, I could no longer see the object. It was gone.
When I looked at that picture later, I remember zooming in and initially thinking that the object was almost bird shaped. Recently (two years later, pulling up the photo to make this report now in August 2023), the picture looks different than I recall, like two bright dots.
The object made no sound during the two times I saw it.
My husband did not see it when he went outside with me the second time I saw it -- but he was looking in the wrong direction, it had moved from the east to the north.