CaseLight2005
Tracy Arm (near; on cruise ship), AK, USA
Balls of light seen from cruise ship in Alaska!
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-02
- Where
- Tracy Arm (near; on cruise ship), AK, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-tracy-arm-near-on-cruise-ship-ak-2005-c10846
Wave
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
- Tracy Arm (near; on cruise ship), AK shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from Alaska in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.