CaseOther2019

New Orleans, LA, USA

Point of light, like a satellite, transiting the sky east to west, made abrupt directional changes that seemed to defy physics.

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-05-13
Where
New Orleans, LA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
8-9 seconds
Geo
29.955, -90.075 · exact
Slug
other-over-new-orleans-la-2019-7d6772
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

  • New Orleans, LA has 81 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 46 reports from Louisiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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