UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1973

Chugiak, AK, USA

Black oblong boxes, connected by what looked like a hose, silently floating at tree top level with no lights about the size of big rigs

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-05-15
Where
Chugiak, AK, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
several minutes
Geo
61.389, -149.482 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-chugiak-ak-1973-a63f32
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Chugiak, AK shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Alaska in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 2.3% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

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.