“Strange Flying Objects Sighted Near Eklutna.”1 If any front-page headline needs an exclamation point, that one does. But by January 23, 1953, Alaskans had grown accustomed to reading about flying saucers. Six women were involved in the Eklutna sighting. They watched a “mysterious round-shaped illuminated object, twice the size of a star and unlike any aircraft ever seen” hover over the top of a mountain … Continue reading Flying saucers in Alaska: An abbreviated history of UFO sightings in Alaska, from the first encounter until one was seen flying into Eklutna Valley