CaseLight2017

Fort Myers, FL, USA

Bright star like object with pulsing colors. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a "twinkling" star? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-02
Where
Fort Myers, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>1 hour
Geo
26.622, -81.841 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-myers-fl-2017-9ecc8f
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2017 was a busy month for Fort Myers, FL: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 68 reports logged in Fort Myers, FL.
  • This case is one of 334 Florida reports filed in 2017.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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