CaseCylinder2013
Sanibel Island, FL, USA
AMAZING. UP CLOSE SIGHTING OF A CYLINDRICAL UFO
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-02
- Where
- Sanibel Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 26.444, -82.107 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sanibel-island-fl-2013-21c965
Wave
Part of a wave
FL flap 2013-08
FL, USA
14 sightings in geohash dhtw (FL) during 2013 peak months 8–8; top shape oval
Flap
FL flap 2013-08
Logged as part of the FL flap 2013-08, a 14-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Sanibel Island, FL has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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