Mandeville, LA, USA
1 orange colored craft moved around sky,then blinked out.Then saw about 8 orange craft streak across outer atmosphere in a staggered li
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-31
- Where
- Mandeville, LA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 30.358, -90.066 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mandeville-la-2009-71162a
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 21 reports logged in Mandeville, LA.
- This case is one of 56 Louisiana reports filed in 2009.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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