Valdez, AK, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information about sighting; remains totally anonymous. PD))
Report quality: Low27/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-10-17
- Where
- Valdez, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Flash
- Geo
- 61.131, -146.348 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-valdez-ak-2017-0f8530
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…
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Valdez, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 21 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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