A red glowing sphere stopped and watched me.

It was a small red glowing light that hovered around me for about 5 seconds.  It was floating about 1 foot off the ground. I thought it might have been a firefly but no it wasn't after looking at it closely.  Hand held lasers were not readily for sale to the public at the time and it was floating off the ground, not a image on the ground.  When I realized it wasn't normal, I stopped walking and started to look around to see if anyone else was around playing a joke on me.  But then again That's when I noticed it wasn't a laser but a little tiny glowing red light. It kind looked fuzzy but also not very bright.  It was about the size of a marble with a round glow surrounding it.  
After about ten or more seconds of this light checking me out, It slowly started moving down the alley and took a right turn onto either myrtle or pearl St. it was the alley behind the old restaurant mai kai on Elm St in Manchester.  It scared me so bad after it went up the street, I turned around and walked the other way.  I haven't told anybody about this because I didn't want people to think I was out of my mind and in need of a doctor.   I'm not sure if it was fall or not.   
It was late at night and I was walking home from the north end. I have seen another UFO at the Manchester airport but I think that was a satellite going by.  It was a red square object that was traveling in a straight path and going pretty fast. That one took about 30 second to travel the length of the sky until I couldn't see it anymore. I never knew who to tell about this until I saw your web site.  Years later on a movie I saw the exact same glowing orb that I had saw that night walking home.  That was on close encounters of the third kind.  It seemed really strange that the movie had the same thing that I saw and this was at least 2 years later when the movie came out. I would let a Dr put me under if anyone had doubts about what I saw. Another reason why I never told anyone about this.  Thanx! for your time.  Feel free to contact me if have any further questions.
Thanx again. 
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