UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Cape Coral, FL, USA

Saw an orange globe over NE Fort Myers sky from Cape Coral, thought it was part of the meteor shower, but it came in fast and dipp

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-15
Where
Cape Coral, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
26.563, -81.950 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cape-coral-fl-2017-50a0b7
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

  • One of 100 documented reports from Cape Coral, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 334 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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