Sanibel Island, FL, USA
At 2:12-2:16 am on July 3,2019 three of us saw something in the sky that we cannot identify. My husband, a friend and I were out at
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-03
- Where
- Sanibel Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 26.444, -82.107 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sanibel-island-fl-2019-a1dfaa
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
- Sanibel Island, FL has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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