UFOMYST
CaseCross2018

New Orleans, LA, USA

Spooky cross-like object tumbling and moving along very high in the air. perhaps 5000 ft or so and not losing altitude. 5mph winds.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-08
Where
New Orleans, LA, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
29.955, -90.075 · exact
Slug
cross-over-new-orleans-la-2018-56b01e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 81 documented reports from New Orleans, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Louisiana logged 26 sightings in 2018.
  • Cross sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.3%).

Report

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