UFO Sightings in Louisiana
1,047 UFO sightings reported in Louisiana since 1943, peaking in 2014 (111 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,047
- Span
- 1943–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (111 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1943–2022 · peak 2014 (111 reports)
Top cities in Louisiana
New Orleans
1953–2022 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Baton Rouge
1975–2021 · peak 2015 (8 reports)
Shreveport
1996–2022 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Lake Charles
1977–2019 · peak 2016 (6 reports)
Lafayette
1986–2022 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Slidell
1967–2021 · peak 2009 (4 reports)
Metairie
1965–2021 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Kenner
1981–2020 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Mandeville
2003–2021 · peak 2009 (3 reports)
Alexandria
1976–2016 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Denham Springs
1980–2019 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Monroe
1967–2019 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Thibodaux
1958–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Bossier City
1998–2014 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Houma
1988–2017 · peak 2014 (6 reports)
Covington
2004–2020 · peak 2019 (3 reports)
Natchitoches
1974–2021 · peak 2021 (3 reports)
Gonzales
1990–2017 · peak 1990 (1 reports)
Westlake
2000–2014 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
West Monroe
1945–2020 · peak 2008 (2 reports)
Houma · LA, USA
Reddish orange lights in sky; 18 of them change to white and disappear.
Baton Rouge · LA, USA
Bright light over Amite River @ Bayou Manchac.
Bossier City · LA, USA
Saw a craft traveling from SSW-ENE, traveling at least Mach 1, no sound, had a bluish glow around it with a few white lights on rear. V
Louisiana (unspecified location) · LA, USA
Light shine through the windowed door; everything went off in the house, twice.
Metairie · LA, USA
Silver saucer with red light on top and green light on bottom.
Breaux Bridge · LA, USA
Very fast and bright,fighter jet flying high speed close by.
Houma · LA, USA
These 2 objects were flying together, one had a light of white, the other yellow. Going in and out of the funnel clouds.
Lake Charles · LA, USA
Metal, hot air balloon shape with red light at bottom.
Denham Springs · LA, USA
Object with three red lights, lights turned off as it ascended to treeline.
Lafayette · LA, USA
Small dark object moving slowly flashing bright blue light every few seconds.
Baton Rouge · LA, USA
I was sitting outside in the yard and i spotted a bright light in the sky, and the light appeared to be very low to the ground. It was
Lafayette · LA, USA
Brightest fastest thing I have ever seen in the sky, around Lafayette, LA, area.
Cameron · LA, USA
Ufo?
Benton · LA, USA
A light streaked across the sky fast from east to west.
Bossier City · LA, USA
Mach + silent object, bluish glow surrounding an object with two steady white lights.
Port Berre · LA, USA
Came out of nowhere like a shooting star but traveled accross the sky super fast with a neon white trail behind it about 30 times.
New Orleans · LA, USA
A bright bluish white object shot downward over New Orleans.
Lake Charles · LA, USA
Blue and Yellow Lights.
New Orleans · LA, USA
Extremely fast object across New Orleans sky
Shreveport · LA, USA
Quick moving circle of light in downtown Shreveport. Moved in a zig-zag motion.
Shreveport · LA, USA
A saucer shaped craft was spotted in the sky in broad daylight, moving slowly horizontally, then quickly shooing up and disappearing.
Pleasant Hill · LA, USA
3 White lights looked like star moving 3-5 mins apart in sky over Pleasant Hill, LA
Saint Amant · LA, USA
Extremely bright/reflective object very high in the evening sky, stationary.
Baton Rouge · LA, USA
Two large disk followed by Apache helicopter with no markings
New Orleans · LA, USA
Approximately 30 lights over the city of New Orleans for a brief moment and then, in an instance, all of them shot north into the sky l