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CaseFireball2012

Fort Myers, FL, USA

Walking my dog on 12/28/12 at 11pm and saw in the sky 5 to 6 orange lights. On the form I chose fireball as my description but it was m

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 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
5 minutes
Geo
26.622, -81.841 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fort-myers-fl-2012-e54c93
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Fort Myers, FL reports filed in December 2012.

In context

  • Fort Myers, FL shows up 68 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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