UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

New Orleans (80 mi. SE of; Gulf of Mexico), LA, USA

UFO Gulf Of Mexico 80 miles southeast of New Orleans. ((NUFORC Note: Report from ship's officer. PD))

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-21
Where
New Orleans (80 mi. SE of; Gulf of Mexico), LA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
29.955, -90.075 · exact
Slug
oval-over-new-orleans-80-mi-se-of-gulf-of-mexico-la-2017-019baa
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…

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In context

  • New Orleans (80 mi. SE of; Gulf of Mexico), LA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 33 reports came from Louisiana in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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