CaseChanging2011

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
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

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

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