CaseCircle2022
Willow, AK, USA
Bright ball of light
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-02
- Where
- Willow, AK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Most of the night
- Geo
- 61.747, -150.037 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-willow-ak-2022-c5e269
Wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Willow, AK.
- This case is one of 7 Alaska reports filed in 2022.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.