UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Cape Coral, FL, USA

For the 3rd night at sunset in Cape Coral, Florida, right after sunset a cylindrical object appeared at an angle for a couple minutes

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-05-09
Where
Cape Coral, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
26.563, -81.950 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-cape-coral-fl-2017-789512
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Cape Coral, FL logged 4 reports in the single month of May 2017.

In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Cape Coral, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 334 sightings in 2017.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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