CaseCircle2013
Lafayette, LA, USA
Orange/red slow moving orb over Lafayette, LA.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-05
- Where
- Lafayette, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 30.224, -92.020 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lafayette-la-2013-e2f2e5
Wave
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
- Lafayette, LA shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Louisiana in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.