New Orleans, LA, USA
Clear image of saucer in photo
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-06
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-new-orleans-la-2004-bf3dad
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 New Orleans, LA reports filed in April 2004.
In context
- New Orleans, LA shows up 81 times across the archive.
- 45 reports came from Louisiana in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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