CaseOval1962
Nenana, AK, USA
Witnesses near Nenana, Alaska described an oval-shaped object with a large spotlight shining down toward the ground, observed for about 15 minutes in August 1962.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-08-15
- Where
- Nenana, AK, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 64.563, -149.096 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-nenana-ak-1962-04c2fe
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Nenana, AK.
- This case is one of 1 Alaska reports filed in 1962.
- Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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