CaseFireball2013

Cut Off, LA, USA

My husband and I were otside checking out his FLIR when he noticed the fireball. He then points it out to me and all i can see is his o

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-17
Where
Cut Off, LA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
29.543, -90.338 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cut-off-la-2013-0bcc29
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Cut Off, LA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Louisiana in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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