Marco Island, FL, USA
25-30 light orange objects seemed too high for helicopters too slow to be planes.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-25
- Where
- Marco Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 25.941, -81.718 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-marco-island-fl-2015-61d954
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…
In context
- Marco Island, FL shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 475 reports came from Florida in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.