Glowing orange sphere, stationary and silent

My brother and I both had paper routes and had just left our apartment building to go pick up our papers. This was several years ago (1966) in the early morning hours. This object was circular and was orange in color. It was about the size of the moon when the moon is overhead. '
I told my twelve-year-old brother to look and he looked up and said that it was probably the moon. It wasn't the moon because the moon was elsewhere in the sky, low but not on the horizon. I didn’t know what to make of it as it was stationary and glowing orange from dim to bright. The intensity of the light was not extremely bright closer to dim but clear. It only appeared for a short time probably 30 to 45 seconds and the disappeared. There was no sound associated with it. I have thought of this from time to time over the years and have tried to think of what it could have been. The only thing I could ever come up with was a UFO. This all took place in Columbus, Ohio on the west side of what was then called Westgate Manor We lived at ((deleted)) Briggs Road.
Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.  PD