Forked Island, LA, USA
orange color circle moving slowly then faster until it just disapeared. I was outside to take some pictures of the clouds. I went look
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: 24s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-05
- Where
- Forked Island, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 24 seconds
- Geo
- 29.831, -92.300 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-forked-island-la-2005-414ec0
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 1 documented reports from Forked Island, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 30 sightings in 2005.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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