Anchorage, AK, USA
Bright orange lights, moving slowly up from the ground, hovering and moving away to the SW.
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 (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-31
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-anchorage-ak-2014-d3c7d3
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
- Anchorage, AK shows up 149 times across the archive.
- 43 reports came from Alaska in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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