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Louisiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,120 UFO sighting reports in Louisiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (220 reports, 19.64% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (106 reports, 9.46% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (202 reports, 18.04% of total).
- 07/12/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 0.71% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (111 reports, 9.91% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (513 reports, 45.80% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Louisiana
These Louisiana UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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A straight line with 23 lights steering slowly a but faster than airplane. A straight line of 23 lights, at first appeared to be a slow comet but when overhead it appeared to be an airplane exhaust but with 23 lights in a straight line heading East South East from River Road near the Lafayette regional airport. I would guess a similar altitude of an airplane moving faster 1000 mph or more.
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Small fast moving white or light objects in sky all directions I was out with my camera taking photos of sunset. At least 80 or more small lights darting across the sky. All directions really fast.
Some hovered briefly then darted off fast.
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Metallic/Silver teardrop object cloaked itself behind a fog or cloud it created My children and I had just left the Dollar General in Hebert, Louisiana and as I was driving we all saw a metallic/silvery teardrop object appear out of thin air in a perfectly clear blue sky (no clouds) roughly around 4:38 p.m. on January 10, 2024.
As I was reaching for my phone out of my pocket and to pull aside on the road for a video/picture it created some sort of fog or cloud around itself and it disappeared. This all occurred within about 20 to 30 seconds and we never took our eyes off of it. The object was roughly 300-400 yards away and above us.
This was not a balloon, helicopter, air plane, nor a blimp.
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites.
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2 objects seen. One larger than the other. Appeared to be on intersecting paths but disappeared I was on my way to work at the hospital when I saw 2 white object’s traveling at what appeared a high rate of speed.
The first object was traveling from diagonally up/down while the smaller was traveling diagonally down/up. They appeared to be on intersecting paths but it was hard to tell as they disappeared so quickly. There was no flashes and the objects did not appear to have trails behind them.
I was able to pull over and take a stationary picture.
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In my video an object the the backyard It was really late I was sitting in my sitting room I started to see this light or something outside and I know I turned off every light before this it was a bright light in the sky up above the wood line shining making werid moments and it looks at times it shining on my ole man's it the head rake off the dislel truck he has that not from it but that's what it look like it's doing but it left a couple of times to the next yard then came back to mine they were there after day break but there was two different time I guess it got really close to me I felt the wind off from it and it sound like a huge train about to coming throw my home it moved slow and I did see a second one behind it lower left corner well thanks for y'all's time hope to hear back from y'all I'm so confused.
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Appears to be an Alien I took pics of in the sky This is not a hoax!! I would never report something fake!!!! I was sitting in my SUV at 8:12 pm on Oct 29, 2023. I noticed this light in the sky and it was moving. It was circular and moving around.
I thought oh its probably a satellite. So, I used my iphone 14 pro max and zoomed in 15x and took some rather unusual photo’s. Some were taken with flash off and some with it on.
I noticed when the flash was on and I was snapping pics the object got closer to me. It looks like an Alien being born. Not sure about the mans face but, that was taken at one point aiming right at the object.
I put a few pics on a UFO facebook group and people were making fun of them. I took them down. I did not alter these photos at all.
I would take a lie detector test to prove it. I am baffled as to what this is and what this means. Any thoughts??? I actually got scared and ran inside the house.
I watched and took pics from 8:12pm to 10:55pm.
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Traveling along, a stationary orb of blue-white light was seen flashing into, and out of, sight. While in sight, it was very bright. While in a vehicle traveling west to east, an object seemingly nonterrestrial was seen flashing into, and out of, sight.
It was an orb, but seemed more asymmetrical or amorphous. Being so distant, the best that can be described as an orb of light. It was bluish-white in color, and became very bright at some points, and completely invisible at others.
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It was flying alone right over my house kind of low and like a haze glowing then met with other lights in a row of blinking lights. They got higher and disappeared.
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4 objects moving sporadically, got a photo of one of them. Saw a ton of movement in the sky on the clear night of September 11th, 2023. Had my airplane app open so I knew it wasn’t registered aircrafts or military planes.
We mistaked it for Mars at first… then realized Mars does not zoom around in sporadic directions. Had bluetooth music playing through my vehicle speakers and as the object got closer, my radio began having issues and it began cutting out. Needless to say we got the heck out of there.
Still don’t know what we saw but it was NOT an airplane. They do not move that sporadically. It would disappear in the distance and come back and sit.
Had 3 other crafts around it doing the same.
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Three objects in sky The first one was noticed when turning off Hwy 13 onto Hwy 92. It was stationary. Flashing.
Then as we got closer we noticed another one on the other side of 92. Then a third one appeared. After we started to video they started moving fast.
One headed east. The others northeast. We took videos.
* please excuse the language in the video. We were on our way home from a football game. We decided to not go home and see where they were.
It was like two miles or so past our house.
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Two bright, unblinking white lights flying toward me rose, banking together then phased out followed by two smaller lights on horison. A friend and I had just packed up our kayaks after paddling on the bayou St John. I was shaking my friend's hand good evening when I saw behind him two bright white lights.
They looked to be less than a mile away above City Park, coming toward us; roughly the width of a commercial plane's wings if it were very near. The lights were unblinking which is why I pointed it out to my friend. As we stood watching and wondering what aircraft had those lights, the lights rose together and appeared to be banking like a plane then phased out as if they flew behind a cloud bank.
I could still see stars where the lights disappeared so there was no cloud. There was no engine noise of a commercial jet. We stood and watched to see if they would re-appear and that's when I saw two separate, unblinking lights on the horizon above City Park that raised and faded out one after the other.
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Singular object similar to star moved from one end of sky to other in 15 seconds or less. The object was high in the sky like a star but not blinking/twinkling. Just a steady glow.
Shape was circular. It moved at a fast but steady speed from the east all the way towards the northwest until it disappeared. Too fast to be a plane or ISS.
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I watched these things for 3 days first in the morning then at night around 9. So I was going to work one morning and I always look in the sky. I saw some orbs of light traveling through the sky they looked like stats just moving from one side of sky to the other.
I only saw one at a time not multiple at once but 5 or 6 each morning each night. I’ve never seen anything like it before. The first time I saw this was when I was looking for the comet.
I only saw one that night and so did all my kids. The morning after I saw the last one I saw a orb of light in the sky it was stationary then started moving and faded out. It was not high in the sky like the others.
I’ve been looking in the sky all my life and have never seen anything like this. I did not get it on video. The lights where to high in the sky and the orb I saw while driving to work at sunrise.
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High Flying UFO almost collides with another high flying UFO On walking around the French Quarter with my friend, who was another witness, I noticed a high flying light in the sky that appeared to be near low earth orbit. At first I thought it might be a satellite, but I noticed that it seemed to be making slight direction adjustments on its path. It must have been moving very quickly because it was out of view in about 2 minutes and I watched it go across the whole sky.
At about 1 minute of watching it, I noticed another UFO coming from the opposite direction in an almost perfectly intersecting path with the first one. By the time they were near each other, they were EXTREMELY close to actually colliding. If this is a satellite, I find it very irresponsible that the people in charge of these would allow them to fly this close to each other at those speeds.
If they hit, that could cause major damage on the ground. Due to the flight adjustments the first one was making, however, I highly doubt it was a satellite. They just appeared to be bright lights high up.
I also witnessed another similar thing not far from there with another gentleman the previous week.
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Flashing light moving up, down and crisscrossing I am always outside looking for meteors. About 5 minutes into looking for one, I saw a white flash in the sky looking east, southeast about 20° to 25° up. One white light blinking on the left side of the star in the picture attached then next blink, it was below the star, then next blink, it was on the left side of the star, next blink it was below the star but on the left side.
It was like the blinking light was moving around the star as if it was moving in a six square box with the star in the center After a minute or two, looking at this blinking light moving around, I ran inside to get my phone camera and it was gone.
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A green light meandering in the tree line west of my home. as i watched it, it became aware of me and hid. another showed up.
I was standing outside my home on the west side smoking a cigarette being directly between my house, and a strip of trees that separates the adjacent home. As I was smoking my cigarette, I noticed what I then believed to be a neighborhood drone, or the direct neighbors drone, meandering in the wood-line approx. 10 yd.
high and 12 yds. away. The craft as essentially invisible with a prominent, yet soft, green light at its center.
I had guessed the craft was helicoptering to stay aloft, but it made no sound, and no mechanical movement was observed. As I watched it, it became aware of me and began to watch me through the darkness. I felt no danger whatsoever.
Soon the light, as it swayed and bobbed almost imperceptibly, hid itself from my direct line of sight by placing a very skinny tree between itself and myself. I honestly found this humorous, as if it were a game, but then I was still thinking it was a drone from a kid. I would walk forward somewhat and again have line-of-sight on the green light, and it again would softly and slowly position itself with another skinny tree between the two of us, perfectly breaking line of sight each time, with no accidental deviance to reveal itself if i stayed stationary.
Soon I noticed another green light, higher by 2-3 yds., and closer by 1-2 yds., not trying to hide at all as it entered the area amongst the trees.
It was at this moment I began to feel unease. I continued to try and maintain line-of-sight on the first light, but soon it was positioned behind a large tree and I could no longer advance to change my vantage as the bramble of the woods blocked my advance. I wasn't completely done with my cigarette, but I snuffed it anyway as I left with haste to go inside, almost fleeing.
Never once did i feel danger, but I was at once put at unease by the appearance of a second light. I also felt as though there were many lights that were unseen, positioned array-like among the trees, yet this is likely to be nothing but paranoia induced by the appearance of the second light. Until Yesterday morning I had forgotten the incident, thinking it nothing more than a childs toy, until I watched the UAP open conference and have come to understand the intensity of our situation as people on a planet among many.
I will and can freely admit to any and all experiences related to this matter as truthfully as possible. And, to know, no one in this neighborhood has any drones, and especially not the family and kid nextdoor, as I had assumed at the time, makes me believe it was an UAP. My friend may have been with me, I don’t recall if he was or wasn't.
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Dark grey elongated tic tac I was ghost hunting around the old house on the battlefield. My phone was recording video towards the house when something caught my eye over the river. I turned my head to see a large grey cylinder with round/dome ends flying along the northern bank of the Mississippi river, heading east.
My phone was recording in the wrong direction. It took a second to realize what I saw. By then, it was gone.
It was only about one second of visual. It was tic-tac shaped but longer than tic-tac renditions I've seen. It was the size of a commercial jet fuselage, dark or medium grey with no lights or sounds.
Since it was nighttime, maybe it was medium grey and appeared darker. Hard to judge height and speed, but I'd say 200mph and 60 feet off the ground. I did not get to see it fly off into the distance.
It went behind a large live oak tree and disappeared. I'm guessing it made a 90 degree turn to head south. But maybe it cloaked while it was flying behind the tree.
The cloud ceiling was very low, heavy overcast, wind from the east. So it was flying into the wind. It was not crisp clear to my eyes.
It was slightly blurry or soft focus. Fog/low clouds, combined with speed, and my eyes adjusting could explain why it wasn't super sharp looking. But I saw an artist rendition from a Nexus magazine article that shows the exact same thing, and it's a little blurry in that picture too.
So maybe the propulsion or antigravity vibrates/bends the light around it. To the west of Chalamette Battlefield are port terminals and Domino sugar. Maybe they caught it on cctv if cameras are facing the water.
The time stamp on my phone when it was recording is 1:09am, but I don't know if the time is recorded at the beginning of the clip or the end. The clip is a few minutes long. So I estimated this happened at 1:13 or so.
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Hundreds of flying objects hovering over my car through the sky I experienced something extremely strange! I was driving on the interstate going 80 mph and there was something flying above me in front of me going faster about 90-100 mph it was much larger than a regular drone probably a few feet at least in size. It was in the distance at first I thought it was a plane but planes don’t shine one giant light, also as it got closer I saw more details. Their was this very large bright light in the middle and two tiny lights on each side of the middle light red and green.
I thought at first it was a drone filming the traffic. But then there were HUNDREDS of them all spread across the sky very close to me! They were getting lower and closer to me making it very distracting for me to drive! I was quite shocked and worried I called my husband panicking. A few minutes later I find a safe place to pull over and film it but they were moving so fast most had left and they went higher into the sky looking like stars.
Also some of them took the lights off when I watched. But I did get some on video footage. All along I-12 were these things, it was very dangerous to have them so close to drivers.
I don’t know what was going on but whatever experiment they are doing needs to happen off the interstate and stop hovering over us driving! Also as I got closer to my destination they started traveling much faster and going up high into the sky. Some went black and some were so high they looked like stars. When I walked out of the car to where I was going I showed my friends and they said it looked like they were in the shape of the Big Dipper but you could see them all the same size and they were slightly blinking.
On my way home I saw them again 2 hours later. This time they had more of a reddish and green glow and there was spray coming off of it. On and off.
what the heck.
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I was at work on the mississippi river in paulina, la and i picked my head up and saw 2 crafts with no wings. Crafts had no wings and made no sound and no visible propulsion. I seen one pass through then a minute or two later in the same exact spot i seen another but the second one was a little smaller.
Daytime. The two videos sent are the sane craft. I didnt catch the second one on camera.
Louisiana UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 220 reported sightings | 19.64% of all reports |
Triangle | 123 reported sightings | 10.98% of all reports |
Circle | 116 reported sightings | 10.36% of all reports |
Unknown | 80 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Other | 77 reported sightings | 6.88% of all reports |
Sphere | 76 reported sightings | 6.79% of all reports |
Disk | 62 reported sightings | 5.54% of all reports |
Fireball | 62 reported sightings | 5.54% of all reports |
Oval | 58 reported sightings | 5.18% of all reports |
Cigar | 44 reported sightings | 3.93% of all reports |
Formation | 37 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
Changing | 30 reported sightings | 2.68% of all reports |
Rectangle | 24 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
Cylinder | 18 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Teardrop | 17 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Flash | 13 reported sightings | 1.16% of all reports |
Chevron | 9 reported sightings | 0.80% of all reports |
Diamond | 8 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
Star | 4 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Orb | 3 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
Cross | 3 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
Delta | 2 reported sightings | 0.18% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.18% of all reports |
Louisiana UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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June | 106 reported sightings | 9.46% of all reports |
October | 104 reported sightings | 9.29% of all reports |
November | 103 reported sightings | 9.20% of all reports |
January | 99 reported sightings | 8.84% of all reports |
July | 98 reported sightings | 8.75% of all reports |
December | 97 reported sightings | 8.66% of all reports |
April | 94 reported sightings | 8.39% of all reports |
August | 94 reported sightings | 8.39% of all reports |
September | 81 reported sightings | 7.23% of all reports |
May | 79 reported sightings | 7.05% of all reports |
February | 76 reported sightings | 6.79% of all reports |
March | 64 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
Louisiana UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 202 reported sightings | 18.04% of all reports |
Friday | 166 reported sightings | 14.82% of all reports |
Wednesday | 155 reported sightings | 13.84% of all reports |
Thursday | 151 reported sightings | 13.48% of all reports |
Tuesday | 143 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Sunday | 142 reported sightings | 12.68% of all reports |
Monday | 136 reported sightings | 12.14% of all reports |
Louisiana UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/12/14 | 8 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
12/31/09 | 5 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
01/23/18 | 4 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
04/15/04 | 4 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
08/29/14 | 3 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
Louisiana UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 513 reported sightings | 45.80% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 232 reported sightings | 20.71% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 155 reported sightings | 13.84% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 80 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 68 reported sightings | 6.07% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 47 reported sightings | 4.20% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Louisiana
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Louisiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Louisiana