CaseCircle2009

Venetie, AK, USA

southeast of venetie,alaska 99781 object setting about 500 feet above the ground with red and green light for about 5 minutes in one pl

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-02
Where
Venetie, AK, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 min.
Geo
67.014, -146.419 · exact
Slug
circle-over-venetie-ak-2009-85b9f5
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 1 documented reports from Venetie, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 17 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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