Time: 4/9/2026, 7:40 am Location: Rhinelander, WI. Highway 17 While driving my son to school in the morning of April 9th 2026 we spotted a cigar shaped UFO hovering about 300 yards from the Highway just over the tree line. My son, who is seven years old stated, "Dad there is an airplane hovering over there." At first I was just thought he was talking about a plane landing so I initially brushed off the comment. A few seconds later my son said, "It's still there!" I ended up looking to my left to the west and there was a 100+ foot cigar shaped UFO hovering at tree top level. It looked like the fuselage of a 727 with no wings or tail. It had what looked like windows along the side just like a large airplane. It was white or silver in color, but darkened towards the bottom of the object appearing like dull iron. There was a mirage like distortion that blurred the front of the object but there appeared to be larger windows at the front. There were streaks of red and blue running down the side that looked like pin stripping. The object had a long pole facing towards us with a white light that blinked intermittently. This occurred close to the highway and in full view of busy morning traffic. My son and I were excited, we both thought it was cool and were in a sort of euphoric awe. I viewed the object for around 10 seconds as we made a slight curve in the road. My phone was on the center console but while viewing the object I had no inclination to grab my phone and take a picture or stop on the side of the road. It wasn't until I dropped my son off at school that it clicked and I drove the same route back hoping the object was still there determined to take a photo but it was gone. As of today my son and I are still excited about what we saw and looked for it today hoping we would see something, he of course told his teacher and class mates at school yesterday. While driving to school today we both were looking for the object along the road and talked about what we saw. I wrote a report and summited it to NUFORC but I'm not sure what to do with this information. In retrospect this event is concerning, such a large object or craft of unknown origin hovering over a busy highway in the morning just outside of small town makes the phenomenon much more real to me. I'm still debating making a police report or even contacting the government in some way. I'm trying to be a responsible citizen or do the right thing. I did some quick research using the NUFORC database and a very similar cylinder UFO was spotted in Rhinelander in September, 2023 and even back in 1983. The reason for the post is to provide a record for the future, being able to look back and see similar sightings helped me contextualize what we saw. submitted by /u/LateForRaid [link] [comments]