North Pole, AK, USA
Driving into work on Badger Road from my peripheral vison on the left in the sky
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-05
- Where
- North Pole, AK, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 Seconds
- Geo
- 64.751, -147.349 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-north-pole-ak-2022-5e4bca
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
- North Pole, AK shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Alaska in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.