At 5.46 on the evening of 6 January 2025, security staff at Louisiana's River Bend nuclear station reported approximately five black, rectangular objects flying over the reactor building. They saw no lights. The estimated height was a hundred feet above the building, and the objects were lost from view to the south four minutes later. The plant heightened its security posture and notified outside authorities. In the incident record, the objects were called drones. Whoever was flying them was not identified there.