Anchorage, AK, USA
Brown rustic red sideways disc shaped UFO and hovering very slowly through the air with pauses at random.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-29
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-anchorage-ak-2008-d668d9
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.
- 15 reports came from Alaska in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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