CaseLight2015

Port Charlotte, FL, USA

Three orange lights seen by two adults over Port Charlotte. 3/16/15 at 23:40.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-03-16
Where
Port Charlotte, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
26.976, -82.091 · exact
Slug
light-over-port-charlotte-fl-2015-1590d8
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…

In context

  • Port Charlotte, FL shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 475 reports came from Florida in 2015.
  • 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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