Soldotna, AK, USA
Driving home from work and spotted 2 orange lights above the tree line. I made a turn and then saw 5 orange lights in a staight line se
Report quality: High73/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-29
- Where
- Soldotna, AK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 60.488, -151.058 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-soldotna-ak-2018-2c0be8
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Soldotna, AK reports filed in October 2018.
In context
- Soldotna, AK shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Alaska in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.