CaseDisk2011

Naples, FL, USA

Sighting at 3.30 AM with 3 bright lights, clear view of large saucer shaped obj at 6.00. ((NUFORC Note: Celestial bodies. PD ))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 11700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-03-09
Where
Naples, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 hrs 15 mins
Geo
26.142, -81.796 · exact
Slug
disk-over-naples-fl-2011-02dd8b
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…

In context

  • This is one of 111 reports logged in Naples, FL.
  • This case is one of 338 Florida reports filed in 2011.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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