Anchorage, AK, USA
White flashing orb-like object. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-03-05
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anchorage-ak-2017-73e37d
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
March 2017 was a busy month for Anchorage, AK: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 149 reports logged in Anchorage, AK.
- This case is one of 21 Alaska reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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