Cigar over Miladore, WI

The report, as filed

I was walking in to hunt on opening day of gun deer season. I parked in the end parking lot west of the Ranger Station at Mead Wild Life Area. I walked on the dike across the river and started south on the dike for about 50 yards when a bright light started behind me. I thought someone was driving a vehicle behind me because the light was so bright it cast a shadow from behind me. I turned to my left to look behind me and noticed there was nothing there. I looked up in the sky and there was a long narrow object hovering with no noise 1/3 up in the sky over an area just North and east of where I parked. There is a long grass field below that location. The object had a round very bright light facing to the South. The object itself was dark but the light appeared to be a power source in the rear of the object. After about one minute the light had a burst of stronger light. The object moved North and gained speed for about 10 inches in the sky and appeared to ! disappear. A normal object would have continued across the sky until it went out of sight, but this one appeared to gain so much speed that it became invisible. I did not think to get my phone out immediately and by the time I did it was gone.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160884). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.