Metarie, LA, USA
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Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-01
- Where
- Metarie, LA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-metarie-la-2009-2b6977
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 2 reports logged in Metarie, LA.
- This case is one of 56 Louisiana reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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