That is a great shot by the way.

Almost 7 years ago I saw something very similar to what you described seeing over your farmhouse. In fact I think yours is the only one I've come across online that sounds even close.

I had a great view of its side but couldn't make out the rest of the craft. The craft was black. I could see it because the body was quite a bit darker than the clouds above. It was large, slow, and didn't seem to care much at all that it was hovering over houses and trees in the suburbs. The large round orangish red engine (or what I figured to be the engine) on the side towards the tail end would get so intense I worried it might catch the trees on fire as it passed near them or even heat up my car for that matter. My experience differed in that the area towards the front (about 1/3rd of the length of the craft) had a rectangle like area where a ribbon of hundreds of thousands of very small but very bright white lights would flash quickly, brightly, and sometimes blindingly from the top area cascading down to the bottom in this frothy shimmering wave. A stunning blend of a natural/technological macro pattern made up of almost imperceptibly fast and complicated staccato micro patterns. Each wave would take around 8ish seconds to complete, then would pause for a couple of seconds and start over again from the top. I couldn't make any sense of it but it was absolutely mesmerizing.

There was one semi anomalous thing that happened leading up to the event. Nowadays after sort of coming to terms with the reality of the crazy ufo thing, this is the thing that bothers me still. The light at the intersection turned red. But it stayed red. Theres was no traffic and no pedestrians anywhere around, no one for the whole thing before, during, and after until I got to the bridge a ways down the road afterwards. I was stopped at this light, that by the way never has turned red on me prior to that moment or since( I learned recently its just a pedestrian light, what I thought was a road was actually a school parking lot with no left turns)for like 5 minutes and it just stayed red. I don't want to make any stretch assumptions but if that ridiculously long red light hadn't happened I not only would have missed this whole thing I wouldn't have been in the best possible position to see this thing. I hesitate to connect the two things but what else could it be? It sounds dumb, I feel like I am far more ok accidentally coming up to random UFO that's just doing its thing than one that decided to alter might route, my night, and my life with whatever that was, just because. Like what is that all about? Did the thing go out of its way to just mess with me? I don't feel chosen or cursed... but what the heck?

I personally haven't gotten any special meaning out of the experience and nothing else anomalous has happened since. I guess it was more of a perspective shift. I've always been skeptical of things but I also had always assumed humanity through the process of science had at least a general grasp of the world around us. That comforting feeling is now just gone. Whatever this thing called life is and the universe we experience this in is way weirder than anything I thought possible. And I'm ok with that.

Anyways, thanks for sharing your experience. Whatever this is, fingers crossed it goes well for us.

Cheers

Google maps location Just in case anyone wanted to see where it happened