Hammond (near; on hwy.), LA, USA
Whitish/ blue fire ball in sky ver, very close to earth. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-07-21
- Where
- Hammond (near; on hwy.), LA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec
- Geo
- 30.505, -90.463 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hammond-near-on-hwy-la-2010-d60e32
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
- Hammond (near; on hwy.), LA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 29 reports from Louisiana.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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