Cape Coral, FL, USA
Looks like a star, but its not. Its green,blue, red spining lights, then formed 4 white balls around it. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-01-08
- Where
- Cape Coral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 4 hr
- Geo
- 26.563, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-cape-coral-fl-2011-6c1e6b
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Cape Coral, FL reports filed in January 2011.
In context
- Cape Coral, FL shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 338 reports came from Florida in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.