New Orleans, LA, USA
Photographing a party on the rooftop of a hotel in New Orleans and captured these objects in seven of my photos.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-17
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20:27
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-new-orleans-la-2009-5ebb2e
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
- One of 81 documented reports from New Orleans, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 56 sightings in 2009.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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