CaseFlash1999
Wasilla, AK, USA
Widely reported event was an exploding meteor. ((NUFORC Note: Suspected meteor, but difficult to know for sure. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 1999-01-08
- Where
- Wasilla, AK, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 61.581, -149.441 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-wasilla-ak-1999-8d7780
In context
- One of 45 documented reports from Wasilla, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 18 sightings in 1999.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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