Fairbanks, AK, USA
((HOAX??)) Trapezoidal object seen in Fairbanks in 2005.
Report quality: Low36/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2005-01-13
- Where
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 64.838, -147.716 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-fairbanks-ak-2005-c0f10a
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…
Local cluster
Fairbanks, AK logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2005.
In context
- One of 79 documented reports from Fairbanks, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alaska logged 20 sightings in 2005.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
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.