CaseLight2008

Prairieville, LA, USA

Bright orange object flying in sky on July 4, 2008 just south of Baton Rouge.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-04
Where
Prairieville, LA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
30.303, -90.972 · exact
Slug
light-over-prairieville-la-2008-cbcf30
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Prairieville, LA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 47 reports came from Louisiana in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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