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Other over Bethel, AK

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Possible Bethel UFO sighting

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August 17, 2020 · 12:30 AM · TRIANGLE

Bethel, AK

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.

November 11, 2019 · 7:00 AM · OTHER

Bethel, AK

I went outside to start vehicle and I immediately saw an outline of a huge craft headed west, maybe 500 ft in the sky and was as big as a football field in size. It seemed to be transparent but the bright lights or exhaust outlined the shape and size. It was slowly moving west and had a sound of a generator sound to it. It had 3 big bright lights, what seemed to me was exhaust from engines. I was very excited and yelled for my wife and son to come out. My wife took 3 second video and a few pictures on phone. I was so excited that I thought I was videoing on my phone but I didn’t have it recording. I took picture on my phone. I have two pictures and 3 second video of the ufo that show it moving and the pictures show the bright lights. What is strange is only two bright lights showed on the pictures and video.

January 14, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OTHER

Bethel, AK

Observed black contrail across Bethel, Alaska. Headed westerly direction. Contrail was at about a 40 degree angle from ground to event horizon. Unusual as it was jet black and contrail was zigzag shaped at top as if wind was blowing it in various directions it was then a soild line and then forked into two distinct contrails and tgen formed back into one. Object continued westerly for over ten minutes observation. Used 7x35 binoculars to watch it. Minimal clouds at time. Round? Object, about dime sized in binoculers and it continued across sky till unable to observe it with glasses. Black smoke dissipated but object was still visable.

March 28, 2014 · 11:03 AM · TRIANGLE