A pilot landed a plane stolen from Canada in a Missouri dirt road and fled on foot on Monday after being intercepted and trailed by U.S. fighter jets over Michigan and Wisconsin.

The pilot abandoned the Cessna 172 plane in the southern Missouri town of Ellsinore, a dispatcher with the Carter County Sheriff's Office said, according to CNN.

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) spokesman Mike Kucharek said the pilot, identified only as a naturalized Canadian flight school student with a few hours of flight time, ignored interceptor pilots' signal to communicate with them. The pilot also had not communicated with NORAD or the Federal Aviation Administration.

The plane was reportedly stolen from a flight school in Thunder Bay, Canada, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown told CNN.

NORAD detected the plane flying over Lake Superior before 3:30 p.m. ET. F-16s scrambled from Michigan intercepted the plane around 4:43 p.m. but the Cessna pilot continued flying towards Wisconsin. The Wisconsin National Guard deployed two F-16s but its pilots also failed to communicate with the Cessna pilot.

Authorities evacuated the Wisconsin capitol in Madison as a precaution 30 minutes later.