Size of Object(s)

Just two lights, similar to the size of passenger plane lights

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

No idea

Shape of Object(s)

Could only see two alternating lights

Color of Object(s):

Both white

Full Description & Details

Although the sightning was at around 4:50 P.M., it was "night time" because here in Alaska it gets dark at 4:30 during the winter.

My cousin, Joe Hansen, had picked me up from work at 4:30 to drive down to a church we had never previously been to for a friend's wedding rehearsal. We were driving along Tutor Rd., don't remember which direction as the city is surrounded by mountains on three sides, trying to find the location of the church. (which we never did and met up with them later) As we were driving we noticed in the horizon above the mountains a pair of white alternating lights. Neither of us said anything to eachother about it since it was moving fairly slowly across the sky as an airplane would, which is what we thought it was until it suddenly stopped in mid-air. When it did, after a couple of seconds my cousin says "Hey, those lights just stopped."

Realizing he had been looking at them too, I concurred as we both watched. We had wondered that, since it stopped, if it was a helicoptor or else just some lights reflecting through the back windshield, so we both sat foreward and put our hands above the spot which would block any glare or reflections from other lights, but the lights in the sky didn't disappear. Just as we had concluded it must've been a helicoptor, the lights suddenly sped off to our left - very quickly. It took probably two seconds to go from the middle of the horizon to the far left, and then it was gone.

My cousin in his somewhat jockular yet awed state said "Whoa that was scary." It took me a few seconds to fully realize what had just happened. Obviously no helicoptor in public knowledge can go that fast, let alone such a fast acceleration. The only thing which could even ATTEMPT that would be the Harrier jets, which can perform verticle take-offs and levitated stops in mid-flight, but even they can't go nearly as fast as what we had seen.

A more visual confirmation like a saucer body would have been a bit more exciting, but the lights as is were enough to convince me. I think it makes sense to test fly whatever UFOs they have in '51 up here. There is alot of land where there are no people, so I have to wonder why they don't just fly them around our area instead. Unless of course it wasn't us.

Witness Background

I currently reside in Anchorage, Alaska but will soon be moving to Missouri. I work at Toys R Us (the only one in the city) and was a part-time student at DeVry.

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