Cape Coral, FL, USA
BIG, like a white floodlight, BRIGHT as a star, around this was a glass-like green bowl shape, with red spinning lights. hovering.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-08
- Where
- Cape Coral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 26.563, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-cape-coral-fl-2011-288e9c
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…
Local cluster
January 2011 was a busy month for Cape Coral, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in Cape Coral, FL.
- This case is one of 338 Florida reports filed in 2011.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.