UFOMYST
CaseDisk2009

Bethel, AK, USA

Large fireball-like red/orange disc low in the sky and moving slowly right to left. Soundless. Clear night.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-26
Where
Bethel, AK, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
60.792, -161.756 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bethel-ak-2009-159e16
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

  • Bethel, AK shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Alaska in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.