CaseCylinder1997
Anchorage, AK, USA
Walking dog in the day and saw a silent and still chrome cylindrical object in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-30
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-anchorage-ak-1997-cad67e
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Anchorage, AK shows up 149 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Alaska in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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