Around 1992? in Eastern WA, late late at night my normally well behaved, mild manner dog started going beserk, barking at something outside. My Mom and Dad let her out of the house, and she stood in the yard barking at a bright light hovering in the sky. My Mom and I both saw the light for maybe 4-5 seconds, and it vanished. My dog continued to bark and ignore commands to come in for a few minutes.

The next day in the city paper, there was an article about numerous people's sighting this light, and in some areas they saw more than one of these lights that night (further East in the state, if I recall correctly the reports were 1-3 seen depending on location).

The most shocking aspect of this was the lasting proof (of it being SOMETHING abnormal)- my dog had cataracts in both eyes the next morning, and they never went away. Seriously f-ed up. I think at the time my parents did a pretty decent job shielding us from the gravity of what it could have been- but as an adult, it is still this giant "What the fuck WAS that" unanswered question for me.