UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1978

Ketchikan, AK, USA

Aircraft carrier shaped UFO

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-05
Where
Ketchikan, AK, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
55.342, -131.648 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-ketchikan-ak-1978-b7bbe4
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Ketchikan, AK shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Alaska in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 2.3% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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