Norman, OK, USA
A redish-orange shape-changing orb over Norman, Ok., on July 8, 2012, that changed from a north to west direction before dimming out.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-08
- Where
- Norman, OK, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.223, -97.439 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-norman-ok-2012-6318dd
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
- Norman, OK shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 95 reports came from Oklahoma in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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