UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

Anchorage, AK, USA

Red round lights in 5 or 6 groups of 3 lights each hovered over Hillside(?) area during midnight fireworks. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-01-01
Where
Anchorage, AK, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
61.218, -149.900 · exact
Slug
formation-over-anchorage-ak-2017-7db27c
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 149 reports logged in Anchorage, AK.
  • This case is one of 21 Alaska reports filed in 2017.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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