Washington, LA, USA
((HOAX??))Headed due N then returned headed E about 2 mi and headed N then disappeared. No audible engine noise. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-03-18
- Where
- Washington, LA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 30.616, -92.057 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-washington-la-2017-deb79d
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 Washington, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 33 sightings in 2017.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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