This is so weird me and my dad saw something really similar to this with the red flashing and then white light hovering around a ship off the NC coast a few mon

This is so weird me and my dad saw something really similar to this with the red flashing and then white light hovering around a ship off the NC coast a few months ago at night. We watched it go on for a while with binoculars, so strange. It was far away but could tell one was a ship not really 100% sure the other light was a drone it could’ve been another boat.