UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Cape Coral, FL, USA

Orange flickering object in sky over Cape Coral

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-18
Where
Cape Coral, FL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
20:00
Geo
26.563, -81.950 · exact
Slug
flash-over-cape-coral-fl-2017-688d25
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Cape Coral, FL in October 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Cape Coral, FL has 100 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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