Fort Myers, FL, USA
Metalic object of sphereical shape exactly like the object I reported on 4/3/06 in the east 18:30 estimated 60 to 100,000 feet 60deg
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-06
- Where
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 26.622, -81.841 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fort-myers-fl-2006-f0dbd3
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
May 2006 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 219 Florida reports filed in 2006.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.