Light over Slidell, LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Here are longitude and latitude 30 18'15" N 89 52'15" w 30 17'39" N 89 52'15"W 30 17'38"N 89 52'23"W
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161076). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-12-04 → 2020-12-21
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July 23, 2022 · 5:35 AM · SPHERE
Slidell, LA
The orb was coming from the west and the second was a little smaller n coming from the south. They were both moving fast towards the rising sunlight. The second moved more on a north east route n the first larger one was just booking it east. They disappeared along with the stars as the bright blue sky moved in. My camera was full so I couldn't take any pictures. This happened at my place in of employment while in I was on a break. I see planes all the time. I love that you can see so many stars out back by at night, very beautiful. So I'm out there all the time on break. I've never seen anything like this in the sky before. But I know what I saw. Definitely a bright white orb, bigger than what a jet liner looks like in the sky. I see those all the time. This was definitely different.
December 24, 2021 · 5:45 PM · OVAL
Slidell, LA
I had stepped outside around 5:50 and while looking up and west of Slidell I saw a bright oval, flying South to North at altitude. I was watching it as it did not have any navigation lights, when it just faded out. About 30 minutes later I was outside again when I observed a second orb traveling the same path and it too disappeared after a few seconds, in about the same area. Finally, around 8:00 another large oval light this time flying North to South was observed. However, it did not fade away, but continued flying south towards New Orleans and it disappeared in the distance. I would note that we are located near an airport and observe planes and their lights all the time.
October 7, 2021 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Slidell, LA
The 2nd sighting like this, this year.
February 13, 2019 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Slidell, LA
I saw a bright white light at first moving and then just staying in the same spot and moving slightly like it was just hovering there for 25 minutes. It then moved to the south.
November 27, 2017 · 10:39 PM · FIREBALL
Slidell, LA
Last night, on November 27, 2017, I noticed a bright flashing object in the sky. It appeared to be a star that was pulsating rapidly. I was standing outside of my garage working on my motorcycle. This was around 1030 in the evening. So, I went in the house and grabbed my father, ((father's name deleted)). I said you have to come out and see this. We both walked out and said that’s really odd. It looks like a star, but I’ve never seen a star flash so early Brightly. So I used my Star Walk app on my iPhone to see if I can figure out what it was. It didn’t show anything in particular. At least it didn’t show in that area of the sky. It was located south east at about 120°. So I went in and grabbed my telescope in my Canon T3 I. I hooked up my camera to my telescope pinpointed it and took rapid succession of photos. When I zoomed in on it and used the LCD screen of my camera, you could see the flashing of colored lights. They were like flames all around it. They were streaking out from around it. I tried to take video through my camera, but for some reason, when I went to take the photos and video of the card, the video was not there. It could’ve possibly been operator error, but I am a videographer,
April 17, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Slidell, LA
I went outside last night to smoke a cigarette, "Can't smoke inside," and I love to look at the sky. when I looked I thought it was some planes, I Seen 5 then out of nowhere they had more some was moving around the others that a plane just can't do and some was going straight, then they just left.it was bright lights like they where twinkling or something I am very confused!!! I wanted to get my phone but it was too late. We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD