CaseFlash1999
Turnagain Pass, AK, USA
From banks of Turnagain Arm I saw a whitish/blueish strobe type flash. It lit up the water and sky. Weather was clear. It was due so
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-14
- Where
- Turnagain Pass, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1-2 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- flash-over-turnagain-pass-ak-1999-95241b
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Turnagain Pass, AK.
- This case is one of 18 Alaska reports filed in 1999.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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