SIGHTING: EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"The following is copy of my observations of a July 5th, 2003 sighting in Eagle River, Wisc. Even though 5 years removed, the event is just as clear and vivid to me today as if it just happened. My eyesight is excellent and is confirmed at 20/12. Upon furlther analysis of that day the "silver object" was less than a 1/4 mile away and ~ 200 ft. above the trees. I relive this event in my mind every time I walk out on my dock...It was late afternoon and as I was putting the cover on my boat I looked up into the sky and I noticed an extremely shiny (silver/metallic) cigar-shaped object traveling in an East to West direction. The object traveled at a very slow rate of speed and at a constant velocity. There was absolutely no sound that emanated from the object. There was no con-trail, no wings, no windows, no lights or anything of discernible nature that would suggest that this was an aircraft or balloon. The object seemed to reflect the bright sun off the surface, but then I noticed that a vertical band of light started to appear from the front of the object and traveled slowly to the back of the object. This band of light appeared every 15 seconds or so and traveled over the surface of the object (from the front to rear). The object did not change speed, hover or change direction at all. I observed the object for about 2 minutes and tracked it until it went out of sight over the tree line. The weather conditions at the time of the sighting was absolutely clear. My impression is that the object was relatively small, maybe the size of a small plane, and that the altitude of the object was ~1000ft. I truly have never seen anything like it in my life... I hope that someone else had seen this object, taken video or pictures and can confirm this sighting... I am truly blown-away at what I saw and can't stop thinking about the event...UPDATE:Additional recalled observations that eventful afternoon: Ps. Also, when I viewed the object, the rear hemi-spherical end was "out of focus" the appearance was like as if you could take a picture of the cigar-shaped object in sharp resolution, but the back portion (and probably the front) was simply "blurred" . My instinct is telling me that this object has a tremendous gravitational field running thru the axis of the object and that reflected light is being bent... Only a guess... Also, as the vertical band of light traveled over the surface of the object (imagine the light emanating on a perpendicular line from the surface of the object) as the light traveled to the back of the object (on the curved rear surface) all of a sudden I saw a prism of multi-colored light hit me (similar as if you accidentally glanced into one of the laser scanners in a food store). Finally, the surface of the object was shiny but not polished. Again, similar to a semi-gloss (silver colored) ceramic substance... Sorry for not conveying this information the first time, but since I still constantly think about this event, I wanted to put down everything I saw that eventful afternoon... One of my repeating fascinations with this event was seeing with my own eyes the "out of focus" hemi-spherical ends of the object. If I was actually viewing "gravitational lensing" in a near field environment, this might give a clue as to a kind of propulsion system certain types of crafts like these possess. Another observation that I failed to report was that the large band of white light that appeared on the surface of the craft had a smaller band of white that trailed the larger one. (There was no "mirror image" of the smaller white light band on both sides of the larger light band, only that the smaller light band trailed the larger band and was smaller in width...Question: " Has others reported similar observations of "out of focus" sections of craft/objects???" To answer the MUFON questions:1) Something (in my mind) told me to turn around and look up into the sky. I actually started to walk up the stairs to my cabin, but I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around to see this incredible object!2)The object was in clear sight and the afternoon was perfectly clear and still (minimal wind (if any)). Everything was extremely still, but I did hear the sound of crickets.*** The very interesting thing I recall now was that there was nobody on the lake (not anybody in screaming distance to call to) to observe the object. This alone is somewhat unique in that at that time of day usually there are numerous fishermen, boats, swimmers, people on their docks. I purposely looked around all the docks on our small bay and I was alone with that 'object'.3)I immediately thought the object was a UFO and that I was observing something that was not of this planet.4)My first reaction was to run up the stairs and get my wife to observe, but I felt that if this was going to be my only time in life to observe a craft like this I would "turn on" all my observational skills and intently take it all in (in real time). I purposely turned away from the 'object' for a few seconds and then looked back at the craft to see if I was not dreaming and every time the 'object' had moved to the position I thought it would be in... just further along its vector trajectory path.5) To say I was excited would be an understatement as you can imagine, but the event was so "incredible" I have relived it thousands of times over and over in my mind. I can't stop thinking about this event for some reason...I have tried to convey everything that occured those 2 minutes in my life and I hope that some individuals can relate to the profound impact that an event like this has on a persons life..."