Port Charlotte, FL, USA
Clear full of stars; then I saw this white ball shape with red and orange flames flew accross the sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-25
- Where
- Port Charlotte, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.976, -82.091 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-port-charlotte-fl-2017-1ad62d
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 shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.