UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2017

Naples, FL, USA

On the evening of May 7 , 2017 a crowd of people were gathered as usual at Vanderbilt Beach in Naples, Florida. As the sun set at 8:02

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-07
Where
Naples, FL, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
26.142, -81.796 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-naples-fl-2017-c4255e
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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In context

  • Naples, FL shows up 111 times across the archive.
  • 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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