CaseOval1971
New Orleans, LA, USA
A witness in New Orleans, Louisiana reported observing what were described as roughly a thousand saucer-shaped objects crossing the sun through a telescope over a ninety-minute period in July 1971.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-10
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-orleans-la-1971-d960a8
In context
- New Orleans, LA shows up 81 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Louisiana in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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