NUFORC UFO Sighting 159293
Occurred: 2020-08-25 21:52 Local
Reported: 2020-09-11 05:33 Pacific
Duration: <5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

While videoing lightning from my porch, I accidentally filmed a UFO/Orb flying over my house at an incredible speed.

I was on my porch getting some video of lightning from an approaching severe thunderstorm. I honestly didn’t notice it fly by at the time because I was looking away from the direction I was filming. My house faces roughly ESE and whatever this was traveled in that general direction from the WNW. Aside from some faint thunder, I don’t recall any strange noise at the time. Given the fact that it’s duration was about 1 second on the video and it’s distance traveled in the video is maybe 1/4 mile, I estimate it was traveling at 800-900 mph.

Posted 2020-11-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109551
Occurred: 2014-01-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-05-16 15:32 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three sphere shaped red, yellow, and orange objects flew equidistant along the Miss. River without making a sound

Three sphere shaped, beautifully lit (red, yellow, and orange)objects flew equidistant from one another. They hovered, without making a sound, up the Mississippi River not very high in the sky. We saw the first one and was in awe of what it might be. A second then a third followed perfectly separated in distance - all three were identical. I have never seen anything like this before or since. I thought it quite odd and came to this site after going out to look at the bright full moon last night- May 15, 2014 and saw 6 odd, very far away bright stars with 5 red lights on their outer edge. The first three I thought at first were stationed in the sky like a perfect triangle. I then looked behind me and found 2 more just like the other 3. They didn't seam to be moving. I will be checking that spot again tonight to see if it is out of the ordinary.






NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2014-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44902
Occurred: 2005-07-12 00:11 Local
Reported: 2005-07-11 23:40 Pacific
Duration: :03
No of observers: 1

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Other


Strange long light opens in the sky.

It is really chance that I saw this. I was walking my dog and sometimes like to look at the sky. I was facing southwest as I looked up and to my left at the tea cup part of the Sagitarius constelation which was about 35 degrees high in the sky. I looked down at the dog and then looked up again. This time I looked up near zenith facing southwest. I did not see a craft. I saw some type of strange light effect. I will be able to describe it very clearly but it will take a lot of words.

Imagine how this would look in the sky: If you had a plastic zip-loc sandwich bag and you were looking down on the opening as the bag hung vertically, you would only see a thin line of transparent plastic. This is what I saw in the sky. If I held up my hand at arms length and spread my thumb and little finger as far appart as possible it would seem to be about that width. It was translucent white. I could see stars through it.

I saw this thing apear while looking up at the sky. It was a straight line then the thing got wider in the middle, the same way a plastic bag would look if you started opening it from the middle. Inside of the widening thing it still had a whiteness to it but it was easier to see through the middle than the edges. Inside it there was a line from end to end but it wasn't straight. It curved a little toward the top line of the light. The line was as thick as the other edges.

If I were looking southwest and then tilted my head up this light in the sky was side to side.

Here is what happened and it happened faster than you can read this. I looked up, the long horizontal light then started appearing like someone at a TV station sliding in an effect. It got wider in the middle, reached its maximum brightness (a little brighter than a cloud passing over a city at night) then started fading away to nothing as it started closing and it was gone.

I guess I should mention how wide it seemed to open. Looking at the overall length and then comparing the opening to the length of the whole thing I would say it got about one tenth as wide as the whole length.

This thing was see-through the whole time.

After watching it I remembered to look at my watch and also the position of the stars. At first it seemed to show up almost diagonally in what reminded me of the great square of Pegasus. Five minutes later I looked up again and I couldn't find that group of stars. I found this very odd that I couldn't locate that pattern again. Did the sky change on me? It is the weirdest thing. Perhaps something is up in the sky creating some type of camoflage that resembles stars, just the wrong pattern. That would change the pattern in the sky. I don't have a star chart to do a check. Years ago I had an interest in astronomy and I have some experience with the sky but I am just a very rank amature.

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Posted 2005-07-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35646
Occurred: 2004-03-16 21:15 Local
Reported: 2004-03-16 20:30 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

In New Orleans, approximately 7 spheres silently travel in a straight line then become triangle as they move overhead.

At approximately 9:15 pm I was walking my dog in River Ridge, Louisiana. River Ridge is a suburb of New Orleans. I glanced over my right shoulder and noticed a group of grayish, white spheres traveling through the air. They were silent, and fast. The whole event took less than 10 seconds. I continued to watch them fly overhead, and just as they did, the line broke formation and formed a triangle with one sphere in the middle. I noticed as they moved they sort of fluttered, not much though, as if they were being knocked by slight currents in the air. They appeared small to me, and I probably wouldn't have noticed them had there not been so many of them. I will admit that I have never believed in these sorts of things. I am not a sci-fi fan, or anything like that. I am still skeptical of what I saw, but I will certainly never forget it. One more fact to add to my skepticism, I live within 10 miles of the New Orleans International Airport.



NUFORC Note:

Sighting occurred on Tuesday night, March 16, 2004. We have corrected the date above. Please see other similar report for this date from Mt. Pleasant, SC. PD


Posted 2004-03-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42681
Occurred: 1999-06-01 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-03-03 17:11 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Silver aircraft with 3 lights, beeping noise - hovered over my house and then in front of me while watching it from the street.

I got home from work and got out of my car. I heard a strange beeping noise and started looking around. Then I saw right between my house and my neighbors house was a silver craft just hovering between both houses. It was approximately 40 feet off the ground. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and just stood there frozen.

Then it slowly, very very slowly, moved over the street where I was standing. It stopped about 20 feet in front of me and was about 30 feet up (it was slightly below the height of a street light). I stood there for about 15 seconds just looking at it in awe. It had a very smooth exterior and had 3 circular white lights underneath it shining down.

As for the placement of the lights underneath the craft, imagine a triangle with one light in each corner of the triangle and the triangle being underneath an aircraft. I hope that makes sense.

Then, I freaked out and ran inside my house and grabbed my brother. He came out and as we ran into the street, it sped off into the distance, slowed down for a few seconds and then sped off again. I could tell that it still was fairly low to the ground - probably 100 feet high.

I watched it go until it disappeared. A

s for the beeping noise that it was making, there was a beep, then a 1 second pause, then another beep, then a 1 second pause and so on. It never stopped beeping. It was so loud that I was surprised none of my other neighbors ran out into the street to see what was making the noise.

Also, the craft came from the South East and moved to the North West.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33939
Occurred: 1975-08-10 18:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-19 21:47 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: River Ridge, LA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright orange object in front of woods

I was about 12 years old and my friend and I were standing on his porch. The porch overlooked a wooded area that was approximately 150 yards away. A bright orange object appeared in front of the woods. It looked about 15 feet high and 15 feet wide. The object was round and made no noise. My friend ran inside to get a camera after watching it about a minute. I continued watching and all of a sudden it took off towards the sky. It moved at a rate of speed that was incredibly fast! It took off just seconds before my friend arrived with the camera. I am now 40 years old but I will never forget that experience. It was truly amazing and the object seemed to be able to hear and watch us. The object took off just before my friend arrived to take a picture.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17