Anchorage, AK, USA
Large circular object hovering right above tree line with white lights that blinked in a strait line circling the object every 3 secon
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-16
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-anchorage-ak-2017-8fc15f
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 149 reports logged in Anchorage, AK.
- This case is one of 21 Alaska reports filed in 2017.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% 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.