Cape San Blas, FL, USA
Eight orange glowing globes floating over the Gulf of Mexico at Cape San Blas, FL.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-24
- Where
- Cape San Blas, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 29.664, -85.355 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cape-san-blas-fl-2012-cb2c8c
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
- Cape San Blas, FL shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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