CaseLight2017

Fort Myers, FL, USA

2 very bright objects over Cape Coral, Florida. Flying to the southwest. Very bright, side by side, varying distances apart then disapp

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-12
Where
Fort Myers, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
26.622, -81.841 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-myers-fl-2017-65db4a
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Fort Myers, FL reports filed in December 2017.

In context

  • Fort Myers, FL shows up 68 times across the archive.
  • 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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