Sara Jane Osborn said she filmed a jellyfish ufo near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on June 15 while she was photographing a rainbow in Anchorage. The dark object hovered above distant trees for about three minutes before disappearing.
Sara Jane Osborn in Anchorage
Osborn told the Daily Mail that the sighting began around 10.13pm, while the evening sky was still bright. She and Pete had traveled from the Valley to Anchorage on business, and he pulled into an empty downtown parking lot so she could take photographs without passing vehicles and traffic lights in the way.
She first thought the shape might be a mosquito. Then she asked Pete whether he could see it, took several photographs and started recording as the object moved side to side.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Osborn described a dark object with dangling appendages that seemed to move independently as it hovered. A small aircraft seen during the outing looked tiny beside it, which is why the sighting has drawn attention beyond a single odd moment in the sky.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hosts F-22 Raptor fighters and supports air defense, surveillance and military airlift operations. That setting gave the video a sharper edge, even though Osborn only said she believed the object was near the base, not that she could identify it.
Pete and the search after
After the object vanished, Osborn said the search failed to uncover a kite, its operator or another explanation for what she and Pete saw. She later said it disappeared almost as quickly as it came, and added that only "God and the government" would know what it was.
The unexplained part is not the brief appearance. It is the gap between what the camera caught and what the follow-up found on the ground, where no kite or operator turned up to match the shape in the sky. That is why the clip remains a UFO sighting rather than a solved object lesson.
