CaseLight2013

Captiva, FL, USA

I and a friend first saw 2 UFOs at her house, and when I got home a few minutes later I saw the same two, and then eventually 7.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-24
Where
Captiva, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 hours
Geo
26.522, -82.189 · exact
Slug
light-over-captiva-fl-2013-e08790
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

  • Captiva, FL shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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