UFOMYST
CaseOther2008

Westlake, LA, USA

Disappearing daytime star-like object appeared and disappeared seven times during daylight hours. ((NUFORC Note: Jupiter?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-08-22
Where
Westlake, LA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
30.242, -93.251 · exact
Slug
other-over-westlake-la-2008-e05e6b
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Westlake, LA reports filed in August 2008.

In context

  • Westlake, LA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 47 reports came from Louisiana in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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