Anchorage, AK, USA
Bright flash of light illuminated dark bedroom as bright as midday but with no sound-6th time it's happened in 5 years.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-14
- Where
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 61.218, -149.900 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-anchorage-ak-2016-bc56b5
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.
- 43 reports came from Alaska in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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