UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Mandeville, LA, USA

Spherical shape object flying silently at approximately 400 knots over Mandeville, LA, at an approximate altitude of 15,000 ft agl.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-01
Where
Mandeville, LA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
30.358, -90.066 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mandeville-la-2015-bd9128
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…

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In context

  • Mandeville, LA has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 61 reports from Louisiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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