Metairie, LA, USA
Two circular objects/craft, luminous on their outer perimeters, flying in a staggered formation, sighted above back yard residence.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-02-16
- Where
- Metairie, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 29.984, -90.153 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-metairie-la-1965-faf312
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Metairie, LA.
- This case is one of 2 Louisiana reports filed in 1965.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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