UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Lafayette (14 mi. E of), LA, USA

Half V-formation lights with plan not far behind.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-12
Where
Lafayette (14 mi. E of), LA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
30.224, -92.020 · exact
Slug
other-over-lafayette-14-mi-e-of-la-2016-3958c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Lafayette (14 mi. E of), LA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 48 reports from Louisiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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