Many people claim to have seen saucer-like UFOs flying over the Alaska wilderness or having seen egg-shaped “Motherships” floating in the frigid Arctic skies. Likewise, there are many disappearances, between 500 and 2,000 a year. More than twice the national average, but it is quite common in Alaska. These disappearances may have helped give rise to the alien conspiracy theories; Philosopher Dr Rohit Dalvi says: “People report a kind of feeling of unease, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations. It’s something about the spirit of the place which unnerves people.” ​
Some people have put their heads together to try and unravel the mysteries, like the Blaze documentary series, Alien Corridors, they gathered supernatural phenomena experts and skeptics. And they examine the evidence of Alaska’s extraterrestrial activity, and they come from all angles, even looking at whether the Northern Lights may somehow be connected. Even with the show's exposure to the public, not many people have heard of the Alaska Triangle. British archaeologist Natasha Billson says: “Most people have heard of the infamous Bermuda Triangle, but not as many people know about the Alaska Triangle." ​
Other people openly doubt the alien abduction theories. Meteorologist Mark Robinson adds: “You are sitting right near the Bering Strait, which has some of the worst storms in the world, that easily get on land there. All the various creatures that would love to eat you. That part of the world is just super dangerous. You can’t just walk into the Alaska wilderness and expect to do it on your own. You are not going to survive.” In fact, in 2007 alone, 2,833 people vanished in the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska. But as more and more UFO sightings occur, more and more people start thinking that, maybe, extraterrestrial abductions may have something to do with the many disappearances.
However, there are some confirmed UFO sighting, in February of 2023, there was a UFO sighted over northern Alaska, situated as it was, it posed a serious threat to US airspace, so a small fleet was sent out to intercept. Some of the pilots were unable to approach, due to some interference with their sensors. The UFO was about the size of a car, hovering at 39,000 feet, and it had no visible signs of propulsion. The following morning, two F-22 fighters took off from Elmendorf Richardson Airbase, Alaska, with permission from the US president to destroy the UFO and blew it out of the sky. A short-range air-to-air missile sent the Unidentified Flying Object hurtling into frigid Arctic water. The grueling 39-day recovery mission only succeeded in recovering some of the aircraft, most of the vessel was lost to the sea.
This was not the first strange sighting in the area though. Seventy-six years earlier two pilots were traveling across the Alaskan Wilderness, when they saw a strange spherical aircraft, with no exhaust trail. There is some slight discrepancy with this account though, one man says that this object was further away and larger, about 10 feet long, the other says it was closer and smaller, about 2-3 feet long.
This was, in fact, the second sighting like this in a month, a civilian pilot was flying over Anchorage when he saw a strange object, shaped like a wing, soaring through the sky.
​Aside from alien sightings in Alaska, there are Bigfoot sightings as well. In fact, there is a cryptozoologist that hunted through the Alaskan wilderness, seeking scientific proof of the existence of Bigfoot.
The area began attracting the public's attention when, in October of 1972, Congressman Hale Boggs, Congressman Nick Begich, his aide Russell Brown, and their pilot, Don Jonz, went missing mid-flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The search party, consisting of 50 Civilian aircraft and 40 military aircraft, and dozens of boats, covering an area of over 32,000 square miles. But no matter how long or how thoroughly they searched, no sign of wreckage or of survivors could ever be found. They never found even a tiny piece of the plane. To this day nothing has been found. ​
Since that day, more planes went down, more hikers went missing, more residents and tourists alike went missing, never to be heard of again. Since 1988 over 16,000 people have gone missing in this untouched wilderness. The missing person rate in Alaska is more than twice the National Average, in fact in any given year 500-2000 people go missing in this Alaskan version of the Bermuda Triangle.
Many things are blamed for these disappearances: aliens, weather phenomenon's, a shape-shifting Tlingit Indian demon called the Kushtaka. But the most reasonable explanation is the wilderness itself, this massive area has everything from thick forests, craggy mountains, glaciers of ice, hidden caves. And anything else you could imagine in a cold lonely wilderness. The aircraft and/or lost hikers could fall and slide into a glacier or simply get covered in snow. More than half of the countries federally designated wilderness is in the Last-Frontier State. Alaska has over 33,000 miles of coastland, and over three-million lakes. It is small wonder that people go missing in such a wilderness.