Palmer, AK, USA
This is an addendum to my original post. This is what I saw in the clouds that day in traffic above exit glacier.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-18
- Where
- Palmer, AK, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 61.599, -149.115 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-palmer-ak-2017-eddd0f
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 21 documented reports from Palmer, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 21 sightings in 2017.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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