CaseOval2009

Franklin, LA, USA

clear orb with white lights encircling it, the lights were stationary and were not flashing

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-22
Where
Franklin, LA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3min
Geo
29.796, -91.501 · exact
Slug
oval-over-franklin-la-2009-ad392d
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

  • Franklin, LA has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 56 reports from Louisiana.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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