Sweet Lake, LA, USA
Bright "Star-Shaped" object, possibly out of the Atmosphere, that could move up, down and sideways, and Fade in and Out on B
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-17
- Where
- Sweet Lake, LA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.984, -93.129 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sweet-lake-la-2014-33e847
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Sweet Lake, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 111 sightings in 2014.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.