It started with a rainbow. A woman visiting Anchorage, Alaska, says she was trying to photograph one when she noticed something far stranger hanging in the sky above the trees: a dark, jellyfish-shaped object with long appendages that seemed to move on their own. Her photos and video are now spreading rapidly online – and reigniting debate over one of the most bizarre UFO shapes ever reported.
Three minutes over Anchorage
According to the witness, Sara Jane Osborn, the encounter took place on the evening of June 15, at around 10:13 p.m. – still light at that time of year in Alaska. Her husband Pete had pulled into a parking area near downtown Anchorage’s Sixth Avenue so she could take pictures of the rainbow. Through her phone screen she spotted a dark shape above the distant treeline.
Her first thought was that an insect had landed near the lens. But the object stayed put, and as she kept filming, its details became clearer. She described it as “black and silver,” with tentacle-like appendages that moved independently while the main body hovered and slowly rotated from side to side. After roughly three minutes, she says, it vanished just as abruptly as it had appeared.
No kite, no drone operator
The couple did not simply drive away. They searched a nearby park looking for anyone flying a kite, then drove for about half an hour toward Arctic Valley, hoping to get a better view or find someone controlling the object. They found nothing. Pete estimated the object was within about three miles of them, although that distance has never been confirmed.
What has drawn even more attention is the direction in which the object was seen. The couple believed it was hovering toward Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, one of the most important U.S. military installations in the Arctic and home to F-22 fighter squadrons. However, there is no confirmation of the object’s actual position, and no link to the base has been established.
The “jellyfish” returns
This is not the first time a jellyfish-like UAP has made headlines. In early 2024, footage allegedly captured by a U.S. military sensor over a base in Iraq showed a strange object with dangling “legs” drifting across the screen. That clip, which became known as the “jellyfish UFO,” was debated for months: some analysts argued it was a cluster of balloons or debris, while others insisted it behaved unlike any known object.
The Anchorage sighting has prompted many of the same arguments. Experts who reviewed similar viral images from Alaska have suggested that a weather balloon or party balloons with trailing ribbons could explain the shape and the swaying “tentacles.” Osborn herself has acknowledged that a drone or another conventional object is possible.
What we know so far
- When: June 15, around 10:13 p.m., during long Alaskan summer daylight
- Where: near Sixth Avenue in Anchorage, above a distant treeline
- What: a dark, black-and-silver body with independently moving appendages
- Duration: about three minutes, followed by a sudden disappearance
- Evidence: several still photos and a short video taken on a phone
- Unknowns: no other witnesses, no FAA or military statement, no confirmed distance
So far, no additional witnesses have come forward, and there has been no comment from the FAA or from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Without radar data or a second camera angle, the true size and distance of the object cannot be established – the same problem that leaves so many sightings in the “unresolved” category of official investigations.
Still, the images are undeniably eerie: a silent, tentacled shape drifting near a major military base under the Alaskan summer sky. Was it a stray balloon caught in the wind, a drone, or something that still has no explanation? Have you seen something similar in the sky? Let us know in the comments.
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