CaseCircle2004

Anchorage, AK, USA

6 Flying objects spotted in anchorage ak

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-16
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
circle-over-anchorage-ak-2004-c4c768
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…

In context

  • One of 149 documented reports from Anchorage, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 11 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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