Franklinton, LA, USA
2 red lights with lights projected upward to make a triangular shape. Was positioned in the sky at top of trees. ((anonymous report))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-19
- Where
- Franklinton, LA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.847, -90.155 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-franklinton-la-2017-2f5387
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Franklinton, LA.
- This case is one of 33 Louisiana reports filed in 2017.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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