CaseFlash1999
Palmer, AK, USA
At abt. 10:45 PM Alaska;A Flash of light (like a flash from a camera)lighted up the sky; then I would say about a minute after a boom s
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-08
- Where
- Palmer, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 61.599, -149.115 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-palmer-ak-1999-fb1524
In context
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Palmer, AK.
- This case is one of 18 Alaska reports filed in 1999.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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