Lafayette, LA, USA
Translucent orb and high speed objects captured on video during air show
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-01
- Where
- Lafayette, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 30.224, -92.020 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-lafayette-la-2008-4bdb28
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 37 documented reports from Lafayette, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 47 sightings in 2008.
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.