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Lumberjim, a more descriptive version comes from Acts 1:9-11
"After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”
Acts was written by Luke (the same Luke from the Gospel of Luke) as a continuing history of the early church. Luke is probably the best observer and most detailed of the canonical writers (with the possible exception of Paul). He was trained as a doctor, and received a Greek Academy education, a rare thing in those days.
So, the basic sketch is, yes, he was lifted up into the sky. I don’t think we need to presume a “Hand of God” coming and grabbing him, ala Monty Python. And after a while, he was hidden by a cloud.
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