UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Palmer, AK, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information in original report. Date is flawed. Possible "twinkling" star?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • 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
2018-09-30
Where
Palmer, AK, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
61.599, -149.115 · exact
Slug
light-over-palmer-ak-2018-fe983c
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…

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In context

  • Palmer, AK has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 25 reports from Alaska.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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