Fairbanks, AK, USA
Strange orange lights moving unnaturally across the sky.
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 (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-04
- Where
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 64.838, -147.716 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fairbanks-ak-2013-d3aef0
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 2013 was a busy month for Fairbanks, AK: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 79 reports logged in Fairbanks, AK.
- This case is one of 53 Alaska reports filed in 2013.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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