Westlake, LA, USA
Daylight sighting of very large and bright starlike object moves then disappears after 40 min. observation
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-22
- Where
- Westlake, LA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 30.242, -93.251 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-westlake-la-2008-776d8b
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…
Local cluster
Westlake, LA logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2008.
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Westlake, LA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Louisiana logged 47 sightings in 2008.
Report
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