Ponchatoula, LA, USA
Large fireball traveling to the ESE at 22:00 on September 8 in Southeast Louisiana
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-08
- Where
- Ponchatoula, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 30.439, -90.441 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-ponchatoula-la-2015-a906ee
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 5 reports logged in Ponchatoula, LA.
- This case is one of 61 Louisiana reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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