Large, oval, bright orange object descending into woods.

My husband and I and our 2 small daughters, who were sleeping, were driving east on Hwy. 80.  We suddenly noticed a large, oval, bright orange, object above the woods on our left.  My husband slowed down, so that we were barely moving.  The object descended down below the tree line, and the woods were lit up with a bright, orange, glow.  We never heard any sound coming from the object.  It was a clear night.  
The night this happened we were moving into the area, the next day my husband who was a construction worker, asked a man that he worked with, that had lived in the area a long time, if a tower or any thing else that could explain what we had seen was in the area.  He said that there was nothing he knew that it could have been.
Date is approximate.  PD