CaseLight1999

New Orleans, LA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — New Orleans, LA, USA
Start: 1999-02-20
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA

((HOAX??))Really weird to see an object flow across the sky slowly but then take off from one end of the sky to the other in seconds.

Report quality: Low25/100

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Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (123 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days
Summary contains a HOAX marker

When: 1999-02-20
Where: New Orleans, LA, USA
Shape: Light
Duration: 30m
Geo: 29.955, -90.075 · exact
Slug: light-over-new-orleans-la-1999-8daed6

In context

New Orleans, LA has 81 sightings on file here.
1999 brought 24 reports from Louisiana.
The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

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