NUFORC Sighting 179970

Occurred: 2024-01-07 18:09 Local
Reported: 2024-01-09 14:36 Pacific
Duration: Three minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Norman, OK, USA
Location details: Looking west. Location is almost directly south of Tinker, east of Norman Airport.

Shape: Orb
Color: White
Estimated Size: Lighting and sound cues don’t align, hard to judge
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: The object was to the west
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Approximately 1-3 miles. Hard to judge
Estimated Speed: Unknown as distance is hard to determine.
Explanation: Rocket - Certain
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Unusually bright, seemingly noiseless and blurry orb moving slowly across sky.

I was parked near Royal Oaks Tranquility Lake Park when I noticed the orb. I watched for a couple of minutes trying to rule out normal air traffic before filming.

I am not good at judging elevation, but it seemed too bright and too big to be that far away, but then there was no sound.

With Tinker and two commercial airports both within 30 minutes of the location, I am used to seeing B1s, AWACs, C-130s, etc do touch and go takeoffs in the airspace. Sometimes when they bank the headlights can seem this bright and big, but you will hear the aircraft.

Likewise, there is frequent enough drone and helicopter traffic, but again no sound.

The sun had not completely set and the sky was bright enough (video looks darker than it actually was) that the brightness alone was unusual. The orb also looked hazy regardless whether it was behind a cloud or not. It seemed to move North to South, slowly until it seemed to fade out of view.

No structured craft could be seen beyond the light. Light was seen with naked eye and camera.

I showed a colleague the video two days later and he confirmed he saw the same thing from his house, which is located roughly 5 miles North, Northwest of my sighting location.

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