Circle over Portage, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving through portage Wisconsin when we spotted a beam of white light appear from the ground. It shot upwards to tree height, and then made a beam of white light in the form of a circle.Only one was observed and we called the hotline. The speaker thought we were pranking because a female answered the phone then promptly handed it off to a male. This was because the first person who picked up didn't see the incident. She was on the right side of the car in the back, and the beam of light came from the left side of the vehicle.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129679). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-09-01 → 2016-09-18
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