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
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
- 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.