New Orleans, LA, USA
With a couple of hours in the New East Area i saw two different flaring objects in the sky moving at a extremly fast speed then vanish.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-14
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-new-orleans-la-2012-7c7611
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
- New Orleans, LA shows up 81 times across the archive.
- 48 reports came from Louisiana in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.