North Pole, AK, USA
Bright orange flashes lasting only a few seconds in North Pole, Alaska.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-09
- Where
- North Pole, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 64.751, -147.349 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-north-pole-ak-2013-fc928b
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
- One of 25 documented reports from North Pole, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 53 sightings in 2013.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
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.