New Iberia, LA, USA
we saw a big, round ,colorful ufo just stopped in one spot a few feet in the air, and it took off, and it was no where's in sight.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-02-02
- Where
- New Iberia, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3 mins.
- Geo
- 30.004, -91.819 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-iberia-la-2005-8aef90
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in New Iberia, LA.
- This case is one of 30 Louisiana reports filed in 2005.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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