American Philosophical Society

Two panel intelligence dossier collage for the Louisiana UFO UAP alien sightings archive showing left multiple Baton Rouge residents and scientist William Dunbar tracking a deep crimson-red elongated disc 70 to 80 feet in length crossing the sky at 200 yards altitude above the Mississippi River in April 1800 in the oldest formally published UAP observation in the US record communicated by Thomas Jefferson to the American Philosophical Society, and right an anonymous Louisiana fisherman raising his camera from his boat toward a pale cold white structured object hovering above the Old River tree line north of Baton Rouge while hundreds of dead fish line the bank behind him in the January 1967 two-night encounter

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Sighting by Location: Louisiana UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: May 29, 2026 | Updated: May 29, 2026

Louisiana UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive Louisiana’s five-case UAP archive spans more than two centuries and opens with one of the most historically significant...

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Multiple Louisiana frontier spectators lit from above by a 70-foot crimson-red luminous object at 200 yards altitude on April 5 1800 feeling heat but no electric sensation while stars remain visible elsewhere in the sky — as documented by naturalist William Dunbar and communicated to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Jefferson on January 16 1801

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Louisiana Sightings

1800: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sighting/Crash

Published: January 7, 2015 | Updated: May 21, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT 1800: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sighting/Crash On the night of April 5, 1800, a phenomenon passed over Baton Rouge, Louisiana that William...

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Sighting by Location: Louisiana UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1800: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sighting/Crash

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