CaseLight1998
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
It was a long light, blue with a purpleish tint. Resembled a shooting star, but appeared and disappeared but ended before the horizon.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-13
- Where
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 5 sec
- Geo
- 30.443, -91.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-baton-rouge-la-1998-368fd5
In context
- Baton Rouge, LA shows up 68 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Louisiana in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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