CaseSphere2012

Anchorage, AK, USA

Five glowing lights traveling at slow speeds without engine noise.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-01-01
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 min
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-anchorage-ak-2012-57cfbd
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Anchorage, AK logged 4 reports in the single month of January 2012.

In context

  • One of 149 documented reports from Anchorage, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 48 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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