Witness Says Black-and-Silver Object Hovered Over Anchorage for About Three Minutes
The footage surfaced in November, about five months after it was recorded. There is no second witness, original file, or verified radar track.
Footage of a dark object over Anchorage surfaced in November, about five months after it was recorded. There was one witness, and the original file has not been examined.
At 10:13 p.m. on June 15, Sarah Jane Osborne was photographing a rainbow from a car on Sixth Avenue in Anchorage when she spotted a dark object above the trees. Her husband, Pete, pulled into an empty downtown parking lot so she could photograph it without an obstruction. The footage went online in November, about five months after it was recorded. The British website IBTimes reported the details, based on an interview Osborne gave the Daily Mail on November 10.
According to the report, the object was black and silver, with dangling parts that seemed to move independently. It was visible for about three minutes, then vanished almost abruptly. The couple searched a nearby park for someone flying a kite and drove toward Arctic Valley for about half an hour, but found neither a kite flyer nor another witness.
Who Saw It, and What Evidence Do We Have?
Asked who knew what she had seen, Osborne replied, “Only God and the government.” She also said it might have been “some kind of drone thing.” As of November 12, there was one witness account, documented with photos and video on a phone. Clips circulating on social media are copies or cropped versions of the same footage, so they do not count as separate sightings.
What Hasn’t Been Verified
No footage from a second angle has surfaced, and no uncompressed original file, full metadata, camera specifications, verified geolocation, or verified radar track has been found. IBTimes noted that neither the object’s distance nor any connection to a military base or military airspace had been verified. Without reliable information about the location, direction, and camera position, it is impossible to say whether the object entered restricted airspace.