New Orleans, LA, USA
Violet light seen zig-zagging quickly across night sky.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-28
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-orleans-la-2014-5e8be3
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 New Orleans, LA reports filed in July 2014.
In context
- New Orleans, LA shows up 81 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Louisiana in 2014.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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