Cape Coral, FL, USA
The second day in a row at sunset, this cylindrical object appeared at the same angle as previous sunset, but this time ive got pics af
Report quality: High73/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-08
- Where
- Cape Coral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 26.563, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-cape-coral-fl-2017-146d4e
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 2017 was a busy month for Cape Coral, FL: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in Cape Coral, FL.
- This case is one of 334 Florida reports filed in 2017.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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