Fairbanks, AK, USA
We were on the porch the orange object went from east to west across the town sat on the west side for 45 seconds then went into space.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-31
- Where
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 64.838, -147.716 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fairbanks-ak-2006-326f7f
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
- Fairbanks, AK shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Alaska in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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