I think of this as a UFO -- Unidentified Floating Object. I was awake reading one night about 1:00 a.m. and saw blinking lights in the distance. What could that be? Okay, it was definitely something on the water and moving downriver toward me. I looked with my binocs. I looked with the spotting scope. I could not figure it out. Even as I stood outside as it passed and took these photos, I could not tell what it was. The next morning I wrote and asked some of my neighbors, and our Community Association newsletter editor, if anyone else had seen it or reported anything. I described it as "the crazy blue-lights-flashing plus red light plus green light plus yellow light thing..." I was guessing it was some kind of search and rescue boat.
My neighbor Barb (a writer who is usually waking up around the time I'm going to sleep), said:
"I
did see it. And I went outside and walked down the boardwalk to see if it
came to the boat ramp but I couldn't really tell whether it did or not--I think
it may have paused there. The odd thing was that I had just heard
footsteps on the boardwalk before this strange boat came, someone walking
rather fast and I thought to myself that we don't really have any outside night
owls here anymore and I couldn't imagine who that would be. Jim said it
was a police boat but I have never seen one do that in the middle of the night.
I know when they are looking for a floating body they use search
lights--I've seen that but I've never seen anything like this in the 15 years
we've been here. Sorry, I'm no help."
Mystery as yet unsolved.
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