Strangest thing you have run across while hunting

I was coon hunting in Spring, Texas on Christmas eve in 1974. I was in behind where the Carter Country gun store is, before it was built. I was in a big Pin Oak flat, sitting on a log, listing to my dog working an old cold track. I hadn't been there long, when I looked over my left shoulder and saw what appeard to be a round object with red and green squares of lights on it. The lights started flashing, then they looked like they were going around this object. This thing was huge and I just knew I was going to have a close encounter of some kind. About the time I was getting realy conserned, the lights went off and in a few seconds, they came back on and said Merry Christmas. It was the Goodyear blimp that was stationed in Spring for several years.