CaseLight1999

New Orleans, LA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — New Orleans, LA, USA
Start: 1999-09-02
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA

Light streaked across sky ... power failure/brownout followed.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (62 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-09-02
Where: New Orleans, LA, USA
Shape: Light
Duration: 2 hours
Geo: 29.955, -90.075 · exact
Slug: light-over-new-orleans-la-1999-819583

In context

This is one of 81 reports logged in New Orleans, LA.
This case is one of 24 Louisiana reports filed in 1999.
Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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