Fort Myers, FL, USA
1 object was flying east southeast, cigar shape ,were small plane are. this had no strobe light. It stoped turned on a brite white ligh
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-31
- Where
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 26.622, -81.841 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-fort-myers-fl-2004-ece527
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 68 documented reports from Fort Myers, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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