CaseLight2018

Anchorage, AK, USA

I live in Wasilla and was hearing a weird rumble for about 10 minutes. Not thunder. Not jets flying over. Went out and looked over Cook

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-17
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
light-over-anchorage-ak-2018-fddeea
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

  • Anchorage, AK has 149 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 25 reports from Alaska.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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