Fairbanks, AK, USA
Bright light high above my town, very peculiar looking when viewed through a telescope. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (87 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
- 2009-01-24
- Where
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- a little more than a week
- Geo
- 64.838, -147.716 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-fairbanks-ak-2009-93e2c2
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
- Fairbanks, AK shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Alaska in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
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