Anchorage, AK, USA
Object observed to the east of the City of Anchorage.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-03
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-anchorage-ak-2017-cb9927
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…
Local cluster
Anchorage, AK logged 4 reports in the single month of March 2017.
In context
- One of 149 documented reports from Anchorage, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 21 sightings in 2017.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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