CaseFlash2014

Anchorage, AK, USA

Brightly flashing high speed spherical object moving at very low altitude across the mountains, moving sporadically at first.

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 (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-19
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
flash-over-anchorage-ak-2014-1f2ec3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 has 149 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 43 reports from Alaska.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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