CaseFormation2013

Moore, OK, USA

Eight fiery red lights hang over downtown Moore, Oklahoma, just two days before deadly tornado strikes town.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-05-18
Where
Moore, OK, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.340, -97.487 · exact
Slug
formation-over-moore-ok-2013-8ba5a1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Moore, OK reports filed in May 2013.

In context

  • Moore, OK shows up 30 times across the archive.
  • 81 reports came from Oklahoma in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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