CaseCylinder2008
Lehigh Acres, FL, USA
Bright metalic object flying westward Very high in sky.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-07
- Where
- Lehigh Acres, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 26.625, -81.625 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-lehigh-acres-fl-2008-08480f
Wave
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
- Lehigh Acres, FL has 33 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
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.