Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Stationary but too low for a star and changed shape continually. ((NUFORC Note: Probably Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-10-03
- Where
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 30.443, -91.187 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-baton-rouge-la-2015-dc260f
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 68 reports logged in Baton Rouge, LA.
- This case is one of 61 Louisiana reports filed in 2015.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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