Anchorage, AK, USA
Flashing lights, triangular. Star sized, clear night, 2 witnesses.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-27
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-anchorage-ak-2012-859c47
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…
Local cluster
October 2012 was a busy month for Anchorage, AK: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 149 reports logged in Anchorage, AK.
- This case is one of 48 Alaska reports filed in 2012.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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