CaseFormation2004

Abita Springs, LA, USA

Distant objects in formation visible in sunset photos

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-10
Where
Abita Springs, LA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
Seconds
Geo
30.479, -90.040 · exact
Slug
formation-over-abita-springs-la-2004-67c085
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 4 reports logged in Abita Springs, LA.
  • This case is one of 45 Louisiana reports filed in 2004.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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