Lake Charles, LA, USA
March 23, 2015 I was looking out my back door about 8:20PM and I saw about 10 orange lights in the west southwest sky approximately 3
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-23
- Where
- Lake Charles, LA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.213, -93.204 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lake-charles-la-2015-e2562c
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 38 documented reports from Lake Charles, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 61 sightings in 2015.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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