Fort Myers, FL, USA
Strange formation of lights in western sky over Fort Myers, FL.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-31
- Where
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.622, -81.841 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-fort-myers-fl-2012-5797ce
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Fort Myers, FL reports filed in December 2012.
In context
- Fort Myers, FL shows up 68 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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