Kuparuk Oilfield, AK, USA
Light in sky very strange, but believed to be noctilucent clouds seen through dark, lower clouds.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-09
- Where
- Kuparuk Oilfield, AK, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-kuparuk-oilfield-ak-2013-726863
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Kuparuk Oilfield, AK.
- This case is one of 53 Alaska reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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