Port Charlotte, FL, USA
Sitting on porch and saw bright flash across sky through trees. No direct visual of an object. Thought it may have been lightning.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-31
- Where
- Port Charlotte, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 26.976, -82.091 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-port-charlotte-fl-2016-21ff5b
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
- Port Charlotte, FL has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
Report
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