CaseCircle1978
Anchorage, AK, USA
It was a total ghost to our radar. ((no contact information provided by source))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-03-28
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-anchorage-ak-1978-b1cdfb
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Anchorage, AK shows up 149 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Alaska in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.