CaseFireball2013
Captiva, FL, USA
10th SIGHTING OF A “UGO” AND 8th SIGHTING OF MANY UFO “FIREBALLS”
Report quality: High71/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-09
- Where
- Captiva, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Several hours
- Geo
- 26.522, -82.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-captiva-fl-2013-c4d125
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
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 12 Captiva, FL reports filed in August 2013.
Flap
FL flap 2013-08
This report belongs to the FL flap 2013-08 — 14 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Captiva, FL shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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