Light over Eagle River, AK
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Zig-zaging light moves over north horizon of Alaska town.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-03-28 → 2008-04-14
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March 12, 2020 · 8:57 PM · CIRCLE
Eagle River, AK
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.
October 31, 2019 · 7:44 PM · FORMATION
Eagle River, AK
While coming home from work on the Old Glenn Hwy in Eagle River, I noticed four circular lights directly North of my location. The lights were at 45 degree angles in two separate pairs. I am unsure if this was one large craft or four separate craft. The lights hovered at what seemed to be 1000 feet in altitude if I had to guess. After about 15 seconds of visual all four lights ascended vertically at a rapid pace and eventually disappeared into thin air. I was in the military for 8 years. No man made aircraft or drone could have accelerated at that speed vertically. I suppose that if it was any aircraft at JBER it would have made a sonic boom that I could have heard from my location, however no noise was heard. I have never witnessed a UFO in my 43 years, this is the first time and felt compelled to report it.
March 1, 2019 · 1:28 PM · CYLINDER
Eagle River, AK
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 8, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Eagle River, AK
While out walking my dog, she started acting strange and kept looking up in the sky and was wagging her tail as if she was excited. I looked up and saw a light traveling in a circular motion, there were not any sounds,, just the light. I pulled out my Iphone and was trying to record the lights and after 12 seconds there was a fast traveling light going through the sky. While I was looking at the footage when I got home, I paused the traveling light and noticed two objects side by side in the frame. The footage I have is excellent. The light can be seen traveling in the lower right proceeding left, it starts at the 8 second mark, roughly. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Mr. Davenport, I first saw a light maybe 50 feet in diameter and it was moving in a circular motion. Then the light went away and I caught whatever it was soaring rather quickly upward. I noticed only when I watched the video. Yes, please forward it to the people you spoke of. Thank you. ((END ADDENDUM)) Video shows two lights streaking through the field of view of the camera at very high speed. PD
November 3, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
Eagle River, AK
My husband and I had stepped outside, on a crystal clear night to look for northern lights. He saw a v shaped object, and said do you see that? I said yes, I DO see that! It was v shaped, no lights, totally silent, and transparent. It appeared to be about 800 to 1500 ft up. He thought it was a flock of migrating birds, I said, birds don't migrate at night, and they make noise. All the geese are gone by this late in the fall, and are very noisy. It appeared to be gliding, if that makes sense. We continued to watch it, having conversation the entire time, until it was out of range. About 30 seconds. I don't know what it was, but I know we both watched it in length. Only one object was observed.
March 24, 2015 · 7:05 AM · FIREBALL
Eagle River, AK
I was driving to eagle river when I saw an orange glowing object in the sky. By my estimate, the altitude of this orange ball was somewhere around 10000 feet. It shot over the mountian with incredible speed, yet it never made a sound I could hear. It went out of sight behind some trees, but was heading in a southwest direction. I got on the highway going southwest toward anchorage. This took about 20 seconds because I had to go through a school zone. When I got on the highway, this abnormally quick fireball was almost out of sight. It had easily made it east of anchorage where it appeared to stop, pulsate a few times, and disappear. I know this fireball was travelling over the speed of sound. I know when I'm looking at a jet or helicopter. It was neither. This was not earthly, and it did things we cannot.