Bright summer night. I am in bed in our upstair bedroom with large windown facing the lake. Hot. All windows open. 1:10am. Dog baking woke me, I checked time. Started back to bed when barking stopped, but few min. later dog barking became more intense as he ran around and down by lake. Bright moon light, everything bright as day. Moon light path across the water from a 45 degree angle. Saw a 2nd light path at 90 degrees. Looked up and saw a "peacock blue sphere about 300' up. It had a white ring around the sphere and a beam of light decending to the water. The beam hit the water aprox. 1/4 of a mile out from my home. It was moving slowly toward me. I thought it was a helicoptor, perhaps searching for someone, but there was no sound at all. Even in "whisper mode" you can here a "womp womp" sound from a chopped. The object passed in from of the full moon and was clearly a solid object, sphere shapped with no visiable wings or tail assembly. - - It was pfretty exciting. I watched intently. The light got closer and closer. I began to feel some alarm. What the heck was this??? Then, just as the object passed over the shore line and the beam of light touched my lawn, it winked out. The object was just gone. There was so sign of anything up there at all. Never a single sound, and even with the bright moonlight, I could see nothing in the sky.I had an earlier sighting as well. About 1972, and this was also seen by several others here. (name deleted)fg