UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Ketchikan, AK, USA

We just got home from shopping and it's a clear night, looked up at the stars while getting out of the car and noticed a bright light m

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-29
Where
Ketchikan, AK, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
55.342, -131.648 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ketchikan-ak-2018-04f52f
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…

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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Ketchikan, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 25 sightings in 2018.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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