Palmer, AK, USA
Large orange cylindrical object flying over and near Pioneer Peak Alaska (6,000 ft in elevation)
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-18
- Where
- Palmer, AK, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 61.599, -149.115 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-palmer-ak-2013-f0307d
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
- Palmer, AK shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Alaska in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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