Iota, LA, USA
It was a very bright object, about 30 degrees above the horizon, flashing red, white, green, and I'm not sure, but I thought blue.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-23
- Where
- Iota, LA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 30.331, -92.496 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-iota-la-2017-9a0fc6
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
- Iota, LA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 33 reports from Louisiana.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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