Fireball over Palmer, AK
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It's snowing hard our first real snow of the season... I went in the kitchen and happened to glance out the window and I saw these fire
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 2013-11-07 → 2013-11-24
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December 21, 2022 · 5:47 AM · UNKNOWN
Palmer, AK
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July 9, 2022 · 5:10 PM
Palmer, AK
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.
October 30, 2020 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Palmer, AK
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June 14, 2019 · 12:05 AM · OVAL
Palmer, AK
It was a quickly moving white oval light that slowly flashed off then on again a few times. The light became two lights and turned towards the mountains and below the tree line. I couldn't tell if it was one light that became two or if it was two lights all along travelling next to each other that only revealed themselves to be two lights when they turned away from me towards the mountains.
September 30, 2018 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Palmer, AK
Dear Peter, I will try to describe my experience to you. I live in Palmer on a bluff looking toward Pioneer Peak. There is nothing between me and pioneer peak but open space and the river. On Sept. 30, 2018 I took my dog out to go potty around 6:30 am. It was still very dark outside. While I was standing outside I look towards Pioneer Peak and saw several stars. I noticed one that was quite bright and thought maybe is was an airplane or star. I watched it for awhile and thought maybe is was moving towards me and thought it was an airplane. I was dark and I could see no shape just the bright light. Then I noticed that the light was moving up and down and moving to the right and left. It would drop behind the mountain and reappear. The only reason I contacted you is that planes do not move like that and neither do stars. It was not a drone and if so it would have to be the size of a huge airplane. The next morning, I saw it again (Oct. 1, 2018) It was doing the same thing moving sideways and up and down and I did see some flashed of red and green lights. I took a video of it with my I phone and will try to send it to you. The colored lights do not show up in the video as it was dark and very far away. This is about all I can say other they it was just very suspicious. I will try to send the video to you. Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) Witness provides no information in initial report. Date is flawed. Hoax?? PD
October 18, 2017 · 9:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Palmer, AK
Traffic was stopped on the Glenn Hwy, sitting on bridge over Susitna River headed towards Anchorage. I looked towards the pioneer peek and further towards the Exit Glacier, in the sky a black rectangle was standing still about level with the pioneer peak. The object would have been about 40 miles away as a bird flies. I guess it would have been huge. Then I tried to get video of it, as I am an investigator, always taking video. The camera would not focus on the object. Then it began to slope to the left and never changed from being a level black rectangle. Then it disappeared behind some clouds that were quite far away.