◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Kodiak Radar Contacts
Over two nights in January 1950 Navy patrol-plane crews and a ship's watch around Kodiak, Alaska, reported radar contacts and fiery objects, one of which closed five miles in ten seconds and came round on a patrol plane's quarter until its pilot switched off his lights. The Navy's intelligence report ruled out weather balloons and called them phenomena, "possibly meteorites", whose nature it could not determine. This is the record of what the crews reported, not a verdict on what was in the sky.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Kodiak Radar Contacts is a reported UAP case in Around Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska (contacts 20 mi N, 10 mi SE and 62 mi S of the station), United States, 22-23 January 1950.
- A Navy patrol plane's radar showed a target close five miles in about ten seconds, some 1,800 mph, and end up directly overhead, the Navy's report says.
- Its pilot said the object came round on his quarter in a "highly threatening gesture", and he turned out every light in the aircraft.
- Men on watch aboard the USS Tillamook reported a red glow like a ball of fire circling Kodiak in about 30 seconds.
- The Navy's intelligence report ruled out weather balloons and called the objects phenomena, possibly meteorites, of undetermined nature.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 7 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
22-23 January 1950
LOCATION
Around Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska (contacts 20 mi N, 10 mi SE and 62 mi S of the station) · United States
COORDS
57.75°N 152.51°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
7
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
