Lafayette, LA, USA
fireball seen in morning then bright light seen in same area later in the day.
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 (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-23
- Where
- Lafayette, LA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 sec
- Geo
- 30.224, -92.020 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lafayette-la-2005-abf405
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
- One of 37 documented reports from Lafayette, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 30 sightings in 2005.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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