CaseFireball2018

Lehigh Acres, FL, USA

Was traveling `NW on FL state highway 82 when a green streak of a flash appeared from the sky and moved like an arch towards the north.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-13
Where
Lehigh Acres, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
26.625, -81.625 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lehigh-acres-fl-2018-10e8a4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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.
  • 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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