New Orleans, LA, USA
In New Orleans, Louisiana on July 1, 1965, a witness reported a speck of light in the sky changing course near another point of light, over about 60 seconds.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (157 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-01
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-orleans-la-1965-65d0cf
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 81 reports logged in New Orleans, LA.
- This case is one of 2 Louisiana reports filed in 1965.
Report
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