Red light in tree

In August, 1966 I was a 17 year old high school girl. Me, my younger sister and Mother and Father had gotten up early on this August day (1:00 am) to pack up our car to start a week's long vacation trip out West through seven states.  As we were packing up the trunk of our 1963 Chevy something caught my eye in the yard next to ours.   Back then the yard to the left of our house had a large apple tree growing in it.  Now I never would have even glanced at the blackened yard or tree.  But what caught my attention immediately was a small red orb just sitting there half way up in the tree facing our driveway.  The red light did not reflect on the leaves.  It was a dull red color.  Well, when I saw that light the hairs went up on the back of neck and I was immediately spooked.  And I think everyone knows when they are seeing something that is unnatural and shouldn't be there.  And because I was a kid and my father was packing up the car with military precision I didn't say anything about it while we were finishing up loading  the car.  As we were backing up the darkened driveway I was so frightened I didn't look at the light but I knew it was still there.
 After about 20 minutes of driving we got out on the highway and I said to my Mom, "did you see that light in the tree'?   She said, yeah I saw that what was it?? She added that maybe it was the light up on top of the telephone pole.  Back then the poles had glass transformers on top and when they had an overload they would turn red.  Well I thought maybe that was it and forgot about it.
 When we returned from our trip a week later I looked at the tree and the spot where the light had been was just about 5 feet above my head.  The transformer is about 20 feet away from the tree and 25 feet above it.  So that could not have been the explanation.
 Since this happened I have read that sometimes UFO's send down small red balls or orbs and maybe they are observation things.  It sure did look like it was watching us and we interrupted whatever it was up to.  And I know this light did not belong in that tree.  I never saw anthing like that ever again.
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Witness indicates that date is approximate.  PD))