Lawton, OK, USA
I was visiting friends in Lawton and everyone had gone to bed. I was sitting in the backyard relaxing and enjoying the clear warm nig
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-05-13
- Where
- Lawton, OK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 34.609, -98.390 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lawton-ok-2007-0cdad0
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
- Lawton, OK shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 41 reports came from Oklahoma in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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