UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Fort Myers, FL, USA

white ball of light overhead....

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Fort Myers, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
26.622, -81.841 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-fort-myers-fl-1997-c9c5ac
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 68 documented reports from Fort Myers, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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