A strange experience

I woke up coughing in the night and looked up at the skylight above my bed only to see what looked like lightning that often accompanies rainstorms. It was very bright and lit up my bedroom. But, what was even stranger was bright red lights then too. This was even stranger like an ambulance nearby. But, this skylight faces the back yard not the front yard with the paved street where a fire engine or ambulance could make this kind of bright red light. So, I jumped out of bed trying to search for this light. At first I thought to myself, "Did the Santa Claus figure on the front porch explode? Did the fan catch the fabric on fire? Was this a UFO that I just experienced?

I looked out the windows to the front yard and street with no lights that I could see other than santa  on my front porch with the inflator still inflating him and about 12:30am tonight after midnight.

I got up and decided to blog a little because waking up to coughing then what looked like lightning without thunder and then red lights that were as bright as the lightning was very weird to wake up to after going to sleep an hour or so before.

I still have no rational or useful explanation for any of these lightning without thunder things that I observed (unless Santa is visiting early or something).