CaseDisk2018

Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Outside got dark, I went out to roll up windows when I saw up in the clouds a round silver shinny saucer with a tall dome in the clouds

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-05
Where
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
30.443, -91.187 · exact
Slug
disk-over-baton-rouge-la-2018-398d67
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…

In context

  • This is one of 68 reports logged in Baton Rouge, LA.
  • This case is one of 26 Louisiana reports filed in 2018.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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