Soldotna, AK, USA
Black cigar object with red like flames behind it one object in the sky stayed in the sky for 15 minutes also have pictures of it
Report quality: Moderate67/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-30
- Where
- Soldotna, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- Ski
- Geo
- 60.488, -151.058 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-soldotna-ak-2018-7934e2
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
October 2018 was a busy month for Soldotna, AK: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Soldotna, AK.
- This case is one of 25 Alaska reports filed in 2018.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.