A fast moving low altitude orange colored cloud like object

This happened in a small township called Balco in the city Korba (District Bilaspur, MP) in India in the summer of 1977. I was a student of Engineering  studying in Jabalpur (State MP) then and was visiting my parents during the summer break .
 On this hot evening between 4 and 5 PM (it was still bright enough), I was engaged in some conversation with my mother on the roof-top of our apartment when she pointed in a direction asking in an amazed manner, " What IS that?"  I gazed in the indicated direction to see what I can best describe as an Orange colored cloud flying (or floating at enormous speed) at an altitude much lower than that of normal clouds. It was quite far when I first noticed it, but in a matter of less than 10 seconds, it had crossed over and disappeared on the other end. (A normal air-craft would have taken more than 3 minutes to cover that distance). There was no sound or noise of any sort associated with this flying thing and neither had it any regular shape.  Just a random cloud shape. It could have easily passed for a cloud but for it unusual dark orange color and its super-high speed.  In my opinion, there was a solid object really flying but with the cover of a randomly shaped orange cloud around it that not only masked it’s appearance but also perhaps suppressed any associated mechanical sound.  My father later informed me that many others in the neighborhood had mentioned having seen the ‘fast-moving-low-altitude, silent-orange-cloud-like-thing’.  And a report appeared in a local daily the next day.
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.  PD