UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Anchorage, AK, USA

What The Hell Is that in the sky?? ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low0/100

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
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-12-16
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Dabarr
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
circle-over-anchorage-ak-2010-1be877
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Anchorage, AK has 149 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 16 reports from Alaska.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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