CaseFireball2012

Fort Myers, FL, USA

8-10 fireballs floating through the air in a strange formation moving North.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-12-28
Where
Fort Myers, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
26.622, -81.841 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fort-myers-fl-2012-bad8f6
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2012 was a busy month for Fort Myers, FL: 5 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 68 reports logged in Fort Myers, FL.
  • This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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