Kuparuk Oilfield, AK, USA
Bright light above the clouds shines a beam down which does not reach the ground.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 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
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-kuparuk-oilfield-ak-2013-403bd2
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
- Kuparuk Oilfield, AK shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Alaska in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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