Zachary, LA, USA
The object appeared to be a large wing shape and white, and had sort of a faint glow as if light was reflecting off of it.
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-02
- Where
- Zachary, LA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 - 45 seconds
- Geo
- 30.649, -91.156 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-zachary-la-2009-4f7012
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Zachary, LA.
- This case is one of 56 Louisiana reports filed in 2009.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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