Gulf of Mexico, LA, USA
Cylinder -shaped object 75 miles offshore the Gulf of Mexico between Texas and Louisiana border
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-13
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico, LA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gulf-of-mexico-la-2011-e06466
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 5 reports logged in Gulf of Mexico, LA.
- This case is one of 33 Louisiana reports filed in 2011.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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