Captiva, FL, USA
Sighting #14 – July 26, 2013 – 6th sighting of Amber-orange to red UFO (“fireball”) + 4th sighting of a “flasher” + 7th sighting of lar
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: 1440s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-26
- Where
- Captiva, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 24 minutes
- Geo
- 26.522, -82.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-captiva-fl-2013-e9e0b2
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
5 reports came out of Captiva, FL in July 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Captiva, FL has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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