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Alaska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 23 UFO sighting reports in Alaska from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 30.43% of total).
- 03/30/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.70% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the late night, between the hours of 00:00 - 03:59 (7 reports, 30.43% of total).
Alaska UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Alaska UFO reports from 2020, 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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Circular pattern of lights. We saw lights that appeared to be rotating in a circular pattern. It kept rotating through for 5-7 seconds then it was gone.
The lights looked like a star.
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Large craft with several circular lights surrounding it. Lots of wind and noise. A very bright light appeared over the horizon.
The wind pushed us down to the ground with such a great force. I was able to lift my head up and look at the silhouette of the craft and it seemed to stretch across the entire ridge. There were several circular lights across the aircraft.
Admits all the wind and noise I herd a whisper, as if someone was right next to me, tell me to be quite. I looked over my shoulder and saw nothing. Then the craft went straight up and climbed through the atmosphere till it looked just like any other star.
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I have video while trying to film the meteor shower. Light appears and moves in a nonlinear cousrse.
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Why in the hell have you people just stopped updating the site?? Site is worthless.
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bright orange UFO moving around all night There's been one of those bright orange UFOs in my city every night since at least august 21st when I first noticed it. At first it was doing things like gyrating and moving left/right, changing positions in the sky and dimming then re-brightening its light. Its luminosity is as bright venus.
It has been reappearing in the same general area of the sky every night over the chugach mountains, as viewed from anchorage. Around august 26th it settled into an act of sitting still and keeping its light constantly on to look like a star, but not moving in procession with the real stars, moon or venus as the hours go by. Every so often I still see it shut its light off and re-brighten (there are no clouds nearby) or quickly move away a little distance.
On september 12th it changed its color to white and looked like venus, which was nowhere on the current skymap, and when I viewed it with my perfectly high quality 50x telescope it was composed of two white lights (no detail unfortunately) rather than one. It stayed white the next few nights and reverted to orange. Ever since then it has been behaving completely like a star -- an unusually bright orange one -- with constant light-on and inching along with the night sky.
Reappearing in the east at dark and disappearing in the west at dawn. On this specific time/date of this report what it did was at dawn it stopped pretending and started rapidly descending vertically, in real time, straight down under the treeline in my neighborhood.
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3 circular orange lights that were extremely bright, they didn’t move they just hovered and one of the circles was close to the moon. It was 4:45 am and extremely windy.
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A bright light that seems to disappear when I zoomed in on the object. Sometimes disappearing though this time it looked as if it almost flashed (many times) followed by what you can tell some type or circle or something. Many different sightings on many different occasions in the same area.
Often times there is more than one.
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One craft seen much lower and moving slower than satellite. Changed direction through the clouds. Bright orange light in the distance that initially got our attention.
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Elmendorf Airbase launched 3 F-22 jets with afterburners which caught my attention. The jets were going up vertical and the first jet flew by an disc shaped object at approximately 15k - 20k feet altitude. The jets did not circle or engage the disc after the first jet flew by.
The disc was moving South and moving slower than the jets were. The disc slowly gained altitude and distance from my view. My friend confirmed this sighting and when he had his binoculars, the disc was going out of our view.
The disc was dark in color and the Sun was reflected from it or it was a bright light on the side of the disc. The disc was viewable by us for at least 10 minutes because of the disc not moving fast. The jets did not return toward the disc while we watched.
The disc was approximately the same size as the F-22 that flew by it. The disc made no sound that we could hear.
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Spinning pyramid with red, green, blue lights, turned yellow in orbit, then gone to stars Spinning silent pyramid over South Anchorage with red, green and blue lights. It turned into dancing yellow light as it went up. It stayed in orbit for a while.
Quickly moved left, right, back to center. After 30 min, it started to move further away until it looked like a large yellow star. Then the clouds came in and it was gone.
Total time was 45 min. It was so beautiful, lights eminating when it was hovering over our city, I saw red mixed with blue to make purple. That's what made me look closer because I have never seen an airplane to have purple lights.
I saw it spin tilted to the right on it's axis like a Christmas Tree. That's why it looked like a pyramid, otherwise initially it looked like a triangle.
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Black Triangle UFO in Alaska A few friends and I were sitting outside looking at this star we’ve been seeing for the last couple nights. It sits in one spot in the sky and moves back and forth in different directions. While we were watching it move around, a big, black, transparent, vibrating triangle take off from behind the star and hover over earth above us.
It was silent. It was huge. It looked like a floating city.
It almost didn’t have a color it was just a dark mass with lights . It hovered over us for a few seconds than zipped off into the sky. This is not a hoax.
I don’t know what I saw.
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REPORT FROM ((name deleted)) 5-29-20 DATE OF OCCURRENCE 4-9-20 SIGHTING FROM AIRCRAFT: PA-31 NAVAJO DESCRIPTION AS FOLLOWS: Geographic Location : Unimak island Alaska 584 NM SW of Anchorage. Mt. Shilshaldin Elev.
9404 above sea level Weather: Clear skies No wind at 6500 feet Aircraft flying in a SW DIRECTION on a track from 54.945-163.452 to 54.
744 164.382 Pilot approaching Mount Shilshaldin on a clear day with no clouds observes nothing out of the ordinary and is watching carefully. No clouds are visible and flight at this point is uneventful.
(PIC 1A) Strange cloud / Phenomena appears out of no where 54.690 – 163.771 above the peak of the mountain.
(PIC 2A) Object appears to be shrouded in Cloud. Becomes more defined. (PIC 3A) Shrouded object becomes more defined and appears to have a horizontal vortex trailing from the upper area.
(PIC 4A) Object in relation to Mountain is stationary and becoming more defined. (PIC 5A) 2nd pic of object next to mountain. Something appears shrouded but defined directly below main object (PIC 6A) 3rd pic of object next to mountain (PIC 7A) As Aircraft moves away from the sighting and glare becomes an issue on aircraft window object begins to change shape.
(PIC 8A) (PIC 9A).
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Reports from witnesses in different locations confirm seeing 4 objects with flashing colored lights, hovering over resurrection bay 2 people pulled over on Nash road, noticed an object straight ahead, They thought it might have been a drone. The object was flashing colored lights, with a steady bright white light beaming out from it. The female witness called a friend who lived down the road to see if she was flying her drone, the witnesses friend looked outside and saw the object and noticed that there were three others in the sky further away forming a square pattern, one object on each corner.
She did her best to record it and we have video. The objects were in the sky for several hours. later that night the two friends met up with another friend who mentioned seeing the same things in the sky.
He had witnessed the objects taking off one by one moving very fast across the sky. Many brightly lit fast-moving unidentified flying object have been observed in the Seward night sky for the past few months. The frequency is increasing with sightings.
There is a lot of activity going on in the sky at night and a few of us have decided to pay more attention and document these sightings to the best of our ability, but we don’t have strong enough cameras or telescopes, we are attempting to obtain. The next morning the original witness got a call from her boyfriend who is staying out at a lodge on Resurrection Bay, he said he saw his first UFO sighting the night before and he described the exact same thing that we had all seen. He was about 20 miles away from the original siding on Nash Road, and he stated that when he saw these objects in the skyHis hair stood up, and he knew that he had seen a real UFO It would be worth serious scientific examination from professionals and the sightings are becoming frequent enough to almost guarantee a sighting if someone were to come here to do research.
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I don't know if I'm correct but, I just stare at it for a good couple seconds and it moves around. Waiting for it to go looked like it was following something then slowed down just sitting there after. Never seen a star this far down in the sky?.
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Yellow light craft That changes shapes over Juneau Airport area Near Juneau Airport A Flying Object That seemed to change shape to tringle to saucer to solid glowing Bright YEllow sphere seemed to moved in a circular fashion as if covering or searching an area has shown itself only at night and blinks before not being seen till almost same time period at night 12:00pm To 1:45 Videos Captured Has Ominus way of appering completly on the blind side of eyes in a matter of seconds And has what seems to react to people and numbers of cameras please help i do not know what this is and no one else besides me and my roomates have noticed it or are aware of it.
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Two bright flying objects flying above Eagle River Saw two circle shape objects flying near each other. They were the bright and burning yellow. First noticed them as we have lots of aircraft here in Alaska.
These were not aircraft in my opinion. The flying was not streamline it was all over kind of darting around. After it dawned on me it was not aircraft I ran inside and two other people came out and saw the tail end of what I saw.
One was left and the bright burning turned to a wheel with spots on it then disappeared. The was they flew was like a darting vibrating pattern. I did capture a short video of it.
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I only heard it, it sounded like a jet at a speed close to or exceeding that of the speed of sound At aprox. 530 am 3/6/2020 a(1) supersonic object flew overhead, I did not see the object. I only heard a loud roar of most likely a jet engine flying at a high rate of speed.
My best guess is a military jet deploying from Elmendorf Air Station. i have not been able to find any info pertaining to this event.
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Went to walk my dog and a UFO was not very far away. I decided to take my dog on a walk in a gravel pit down by the hay flats in Wasilla one evening. Everything was normal with the walk and about 20 min into the walk my dog was getting cold and let me know he wanted back into the car.
We walked back to the car and I let him in and as I unhooked his leash off of his collar I seen out of the corner of my eye 3 bright lights in the sky about 500 yards away and 250 feet in the sky. The sky was clear and stars were out but these lights were dramatically brighter. I turned my head and looked right at it and it was just hovering in one spot.
I knew exactly what I was looking at and couldn't believe it. Since I was out with my dog in an area with known wildlife that can attack people I did have my AR15 on my back but no way was I tempted to fire at it. I set my rifle in my car and grabbed my Cannon DSLR camera and as soon as I had the camera the craft slowly started my way.
To my luck my camera didn't have a memory c! ard so I found one as fast as I could. When I looked back up at it I seen a dark colored triangle with bright white lights at each corner of the triangle. At this time it was right in front of me making a gradual left hand turn.
It had to be at least as wide as a Boing 727. Next it did something I never would have guessed. As it was turning right in front of my eyes I watched it shift from a huge triangle and turn into a military C5 Galaxy yet there was zero sound.
It was about 100 feet away and now pointed away from me gaining altitude. It must have tried to camouflage itself but way too late. I had totally forgotten about my camera till this point so I raised my camera and couldnt find anything at all in the viewer.
I took three hail Mary pics and watched the thing slowly disappear high into the sky. My 3 pics were shaky and blurry of corse but it showed the back of a craft with lights at each corner and also 2 red large engine looking things along the flat craft's back s! ide. I've never heard of a UFO changing into something more co! mmon for a viewer to understand but it makes sense it would disguise itself.
One thing that I'm concerned about is that when I first seen it it wasnt fully dark out yet and when I took the pics and it was headed away from me it was pitch black out. I'm not kidding.
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Yellowish sphere, with light and a haze to it, stopped went back the direction it came from. Around 04:30 while out on patrol I took a break and was doing some stargazing using the binoculars we carry in our patrol vehicles. I was watching one star in particular and noticed on the corner of my lens that there was something moving left to the right way out.
I looked up from the binoculars to see if it was a plane that I could see with the naked eye and I could not. i looked back into my binoculars and kept following it for about five or six minutes another minute goes by and the object stops I try to focus in on it more but its so far out that i cannot see any full detail on what it could really be i get on my phone and check the twenty four hour plane radar to see if there is any planes going up to the slope or coming back i see none at all on my phone. i look back at the object for another two minutes, its sits there a second or two longer then starts flying back the way it came after about one minute the object just flat out disappears.
The object was about one quarter the size of the star i was watching before i spotted it. It also emitted a rather bright light, traveled very fast and had a light haze to it.
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Very bright stationary light. This object has been seen nightly in the skies above Pt. McKenzie and does not appear to be moving.
No associated strobes or other lights other than the one very bright white light. A nightly event!.
Alaska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Circle | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Monday | 7 reported sightings | 30.43% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/30/20 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
03/23/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
08/20/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
02/15/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
08/21/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Alaska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 30.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
All Alaska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Alaska, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Alaska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Alaska.