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Alaska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 635 UFO sighting reports in Alaska to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (147 reports, 23.15% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (81 reports, 12.76% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (114 reports, 17.95% of total).
- 12/23/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 0.63% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (53 reports, 8.35% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (243 reports, 38.27% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Alaska
These Alaska UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I was in playground and absentmindedly looking at the sky and saw a streak coming down from the sky it was orange seemed to hit ground. I was in playground and absentmindedly looking at the sky and saw a streak coming down from the sky it was orange seemed to hit the ground. A long fiery streak, most likely a satellite reentering the atmosphere.
It was a bright orange streak that looked to be on fire. It was witnessed by many students in elementary and middle school.
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5 orb-like structures seen near a small establishment. My mom and I were bouncing from places and grabbing essentials items and what not when she decided to get a few soft drinks from a nearby convenience store. I was glued to my phone as she exited the vehicle and began her mild shopping spree of sodas and fast food.
Something interesting caught my eye as I watched a car almost get t-boned in the side of the body by another, but thankfully they both stopped in time. After this event, I decided to pay a bit more attention to my surroundings, and that's when I seen these five orbs. They were much more clear with the naked eye, but hey, I can't record with my eyes so my phone would have to do.
The orbs didn't really move that much, but we're suspended up in the sky, probably around a few yards up from where I could view. I couldn't stop thinking about them on the car ride back to my residence, wondering if I really had caught a UFO on my phone.
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we went on an excursion with NCL to the Raptor Center, Sitka National Historical Park and Fortress of the Bears and somewhere in between them the photo I took is where it was. I never saw it with the naked eye it was not until I started working on my photos that I saw this on a photo. I have 2 photos taken 1 min.
apart and it only shows up in one photo. It had to have moved fast because of the time difference between each photo. The photo with the ufo is 20231022_163701.
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It moved unlike anything I've seen, watched it for a while before recording, no clue, figured someone else might like to see it. It would zip around, behind the clouds and get real dim so the video would lose it and then get closer I guess making it in front of the clouds or something. Not really sure if it was clouds or the thing was just getting dimmer and brighter.
I could see it WAY better in person. This was just unlike anything that I've seen, by far. I was looking towards the South East I think.
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I noticed an orb flying erratically on a security cam and watched it abruptly change course twice before flying off camera I noticed a white orb with a trail behind it flying just above east mount susitna before abruptly changing course and heading north. After moving north for about 2 seconds, it abruptly changed course again, heading east. It stopped moving for about 5 seconds, then flew east off camera.
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I stopped on the trail at a good photo clearing of the mountains. Six photos within 60 seconds. One photo showed anamoly when reviewed.
One picture shows anomaly. 59.54119 Degrees North, 136.
12595 Degrees W- location photo taken. Another picture taken within same sixty seconds its gone. I was on vacation.
I took an ATV out the trail to sightsee, go gold panning and follow the river upsteam. Picures taken on Apple iphone14 Pro Max.
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A green blue triangle hovered near my home by my truck for 25-30 seconds. Didn't make a sound but felt something inside my bones. I don't know how to say this but I felt something inside me and saw things.
Went to my window and a green blueish triangle was above my truck maybe a 100 feet. Right above the trees. Left less than a minute after.
But still have what I think they were trying to tell me.
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Very Bright large cigar shaped object appeared in NW airspace hovered about 45 seconds then disappeared. Large Cigar shaped bright white light object appears in the NW airspace above Wasilla, AK hovering in place for 45 seconds then disappears. Object was visible from wonderland city park facing nw.
Video was captured on cellphone camera a couple seconds after it appeared.
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This object flew up from behind a ridge at extremely high speed. We were sightseeing along Hatchers Pass Alaska and watched an object fly up from behind a ridgeline. It flew up at an extraordinary speed to a point high above the ridge.
It came to a stop, hovered for a couple of seconds, then descended back along the same general path. It suddenly made a directional change and flew off horizontally. It seemed to accelerate instantaneously and disappeared within approximately 1 second.
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Unknown Space Craft from High in the Sky I was headed to the store then I was driving on 28th Avenue about 2 streets over from my house then I seen a bunch of birds acting strangely. So I looked up there was 2-alumunus colored square shaped flying objects with a very strange sound but not loud. Then I taken a video footage of the 3 UFOs and went back to record some more then they were gone in nanoseconds.
I went home to upload on my computer then screen shotted a couple of the objects seemed to look like they changed into disk shaped objects. I called and made a report to the Fairbanks Police Department.
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Object flying over my hometown. Red light turning on and off. Made a high pitch sound Around 10:30 pm.
I was walking home from a home store. Walked down the hill to my neighborhood. Noticed a red light blinking over the neighbors house.
It was a bright red object. I heard a high pitch sound coming from the object. I recorded the object but it was only 8 seconds long.
I was paranoid so I speed walked home. It felt so uncomfortable walking home. It was going in circles but was going towards up north.
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Flightradar24 track of USAF AFRDQ5827 Watched this live but found the USAF aircraft track had been recorded. A UFO had been shot down by a USAF fighter minutes before this aircraft arrived. I think they may have been looking for pieces of the UFO.
My question is can this USAF AFRQ5827 track show that it can fly like a UFO without stalling in flight and crashing ?.
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I was driving home when I looked up at a large bright disk like object and after a few moments it flew down and away. It was 6:39 pm I was driving along Chena Hotsprings road around 22 mile. I had just skipped a song in my playlist when I looked up and saw what I believe to be an extraterrestrial U.
F.O of some kind. It was a sort of circular disk type of object, I slowed down to get a better look when it flew away at an incredible speed making a sort of V shape.
I don't know of any aircraft capable of such a maneuver. I immediately opened my phone to tell my boyfriend what I had seen when I noticed the time read 6:48. I had lost nine minutes but I hadn't moved more than 600 feet from when I first looked into the sky.
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See above.
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Bright light with neon blue tail White light with neon blue long tail lit up bright white on ground.
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Two Light with Green Glow On Dec 19TH, 0742 in the morning, I was taking several pictures of the moon pictured to the left in the photos. The moon was very vibrant and the sky was clear. The whitish/ yellow lights, along with the green circular shape in the sky where not visible to the naked eye while taking photos.
The items discussed where not seen until the photos where observed days later. The pictures where taken with my Samsung cell phone. Under the details on the photo: where F2.
2, 1/3 s, 1.88mm, ISO 640.
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Saw a satellite then saw a light pacing behind it. I saw a strange moving “satellite” It stopped and changed direction. I talked to some people about it.
Then tried to get a 2nd pair of eyes on it. Called my sister & she went out. We saw some shooting stars too.
Then we saw the “satellite” followed by another light. I attempted to get a pic. Success!.
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Approximately 3 objects observed, along with passenger jet in Anchorage August 17th 2022 at 1736, I took an 8 second 4K video of clouds with my Samsung cell phone. 30 frames per second is what the video captured the objects at. From my location 10 miles north of Anchorage looking south towards Anchorage, AK.
I caught what appears to be some sort of objects in the sky moving in an easterly course below the altitude of the passenger jet. The passenger jet was on its approach to Ted Stevens Airport at around 10 thousand feet. The photos show that two of objects shadows are casted onto the cloud.
My email wont allow me to send the video do to the size.
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We was looking out our window taking picture of the clouds because of the colors. Then this huge ufo appeared, You can see a wormhole Was talking pictures of the clouds because of the color’s. Zoom in you can see two ufos I circled … right after i took those pictures this huge ufo appears,my husband said Take pictures.
so we captured two more pictures of this huge ufo in anchorage Alaska during the day , near the airport. We have the date to if you need it get a hold of us . Thank you Susan and Travis Reft .
We have seen more than this in Alaskas skies and have decided to share theses pictures now . You can see in the picture of the huge ufo ther is a worrmhole shadow circle that opens up that’s where it dispersed into and how it appears you can also see what appears to be exhaust coming from the ufo also . It was shinny on the top like a reflection of the sun was giving it power or camouflage appearance.
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I took the picture and saw it later when I saw a spec of light in the left corner. I was shooting a picture of an eagle, it is in the It appears to be two crafts. The smaller one has 5 lights orbiting around it and the long one looks like two faded lights went straight up above it in the clouds.
This shot was taken out of a sunroof in a Toyota 4runner, while the car was running. It could be a reflection off the steering wheel of the Toyota emblem and the door handle, but I thought I should send it in for your review.
Alaska UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 147 reported sightings | 23.15% of all reports |
Circle | 75 reported sightings | 11.81% of all reports |
Disk | 46 reported sightings | 7.24% of all reports |
Triangle | 45 reported sightings | 7.09% of all reports |
Sphere | 43 reported sightings | 6.77% of all reports |
Unknown | 40 reported sightings | 6.30% of all reports |
Oval | 37 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
Fireball | 35 reported sightings | 5.51% of all reports |
Other | 35 reported sightings | 5.51% of all reports |
Flash | 21 reported sightings | 3.31% of all reports |
Formation | 16 reported sightings | 2.52% of all reports |
Changing | 14 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Cigar | 14 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Rectangle | 13 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
Cylinder | 11 reported sightings | 1.73% of all reports |
Diamond | 10 reported sightings | 1.57% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Orb | 2 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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March | 81 reported sightings | 12.76% of all reports |
December | 78 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
January | 69 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
October | 62 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
November | 57 reported sightings | 8.98% of all reports |
September | 56 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
August | 52 reported sightings | 8.19% of all reports |
February | 48 reported sightings | 7.56% of all reports |
April | 34 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
June | 34 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
May | 26 reported sightings | 4.09% of all reports |
July | 20 reported sightings | 3.15% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Friday | 114 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Saturday | 108 reported sightings | 17.01% of all reports |
Sunday | 87 reported sightings | 13.70% of all reports |
Tuesday | 86 reported sightings | 13.54% of all reports |
Wednesday | 78 reported sightings | 12.28% of all reports |
Thursday | 75 reported sightings | 11.81% of all reports |
Monday | 69 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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12/23/13 | 4 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
01/08/99 | 3 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
12/31/16 | 3 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
03/16/13 | 3 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
12/31/13 | 3 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 243 reported sightings | 38.27% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 132 reported sightings | 20.79% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 95 reported sightings | 14.96% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 53 reported sightings | 8.35% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 49 reported sightings | 7.72% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 45 reported sightings | 7.09% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alaska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alaska.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Alaska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Alaska