Saw something hovering over the lake behind my house last night and I can't stop thinking about it

Been driving me nuts all morning reading this. What colour was the light? That detail matters more than people realise. There's a lake about 40 miles east of me here in Oregon where people have been reporting hovering objects going back decades, and in almost every single case the witnesses describe either orange or a kind of blue-white that doesn't behave like any normal light source. It doesn't flicker, doesn't strobe, just holds steady and then moves in a way that aircraft simply cannot replicate.

The lake connection is something I've been looking into for a while. Water seems to draw these things. I don't know if its electromagnetic, geological, or something else entirely but the pattern is way too consistent to ignore.

Did it make any sound? And roughly how long did you observe it before it moved off? Really need those specifics if we're going to narrow down what you actually saw.

@RetiredTaxiDriver47 is right, colour is massively important. Blue-white tends to correlate with plasma-based phenomena or genuine UAP reports, amber/orange leans more toward earth lights or piezoelectric activity from geological stress, and red is a whole different category tbh.

OP what was the light doing exactly - was it static or pulsing? And did the lake surface look disturbed at all underneath it? Bodies of water seem to act almost like attractors for this kind of activity, theres a load of documentation on that going back decades. The Hessdalen lights in Norway are probably the most studied example of the water-light connection.

@sofia_hughes is onto something but I'd push back slightly on the plasma framing - that's still a bit of a catch-all explanation that papers over a lot of variables.

What I'd want to know is whether the colour was static or pulsing, and if it pulsed, was there a rhythm to it or was it irregular. Irregular pulsing with colour shifts is the pattern that keeps coming up in the more credible lake-based sighting reports and it doesn't fit the plasma model particularly well.

Also OP - did the light reflect on the water surface? Sounds like a basic question but a surprising number of people who report hovering lights over lakes say thier was no reflection, which is either a perceptual thing or it tells you something about the nature of the light source itself.