CaseChanging2018

Anchorage, AK, USA

So standing on my porch having a smoke and what i thought was a dark cloud over downtowwn anchorage i noticed it slowly moving but not

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-01
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5+ minutes
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
changing-over-anchorage-ak-2018-6b4c59
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 149 documented reports from Anchorage, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 25 sightings in 2018.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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