Gulf of Mexico SMI 69 B, LA, USA
STRANGE GREEN OVAL LIGHT COMING FROM SPACE WITH NO BEAM TO THE WATER PILOT TRIED TO RECORD BUT IT WOULDNT SHOW UP IN A VIDEO.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-12
- Where
- Gulf of Mexico SMI 69 B, LA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- <60 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- oval-over-gulf-of-mexico-smi-69-b-la-2016-8df5fd
Part of a wave
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
- Gulf of Mexico SMI 69 B, LA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 48 reports came from Louisiana in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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