CaseUnknown1977
New Orleans, LA, USA
Father and son witness V-shaped formation of lights move quickly overhead.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-15
- Where
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 29.955, -90.075 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-orleans-la-1977-ef8bca
Wave
Part of a wave
Colares & Operação Prato
Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil
The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…
In context
- New Orleans, LA has 81 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 5 reports from Louisiana.
Report
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