CaseDisk2020

Anchorage, AK, USA

Elmendorf Airbase launched 3 F-22 jets with afterburners which caught my attention. The jets were going up vertical and the first jet

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-08-21
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-12 minutes
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
disk-over-anchorage-ak-2020-2319cd
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

  • This is one of 149 reports logged in Anchorage, AK.
  • This case is one of 23 Alaska reports filed in 2020.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2020s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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