Mandeville, LA, USA
5 seconds total?
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-20
- Where
- Mandeville, LA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Just a few seconds
- Geo
- 30.358, -90.066 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-mandeville-la-2021-154817
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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
- Mandeville, LA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from Louisiana in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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