CaseCircle1972
Anchorage, AK, USA
A witness in Anchorage, Alaska reported a large, bright, blue-white circular object performing what appeared to be an extremely high-speed flyby, during a two-to-four-second sighting in August 1972.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-08-30
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 to 4 seconds
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anchorage-ak-1972-70c4dc
In context
- Anchorage, AK shows up 149 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Alaska in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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