CaseUnknown2007

Metairie, LA, USA

Object over New Orleans streaked out of sight in a flash followed with a sonic boom. ((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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-10-02
Where
Metairie, LA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
<30 seconds
Geo
29.984, -90.153 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-metairie-la-2007-988a49
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…

In context

  • Metairie, LA has 27 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 25 reports from Louisiana.

Report

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