Lake Isabella area, Kern County, CA

At 8 PM I saw a cluster of roughly 15 to 20 flashing red lights, like strobe lights, flashing rapidly, randomly, in no particular order, but indicating a shape approximating a pointed ellipse like two shallow bowls, one upright and one inverted, joined at their edges, and moving through the sky from the east of my position toward the south. Moving from northwest to northeast.

This is mountainous desert country, there was no sound other than a dog barking, and this object was at a low altitude when I first saw it and fairly close to me. The sky was very dark so I couldn't see the object itself, only the lights. At the rate of speed it moved from left to right in front of me, combined with the simultaneous apparent decrease in size and elevation because of increasing distance, I can say that it was huge and therefor should have made a loud noise of some sort. My immediate impression as it disappeared behind the hills was that it was about a half mile in length.. There was only a slight breeze and that was coming toward me from the east as is usually does, while this thing was moving into the breeze, so it was not any sort of balloon.