Sanibel Island, FL, USA
"Shooting star" that didn't burn up but moved across the sky from east to west, then turned right just above the horizon.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-28
- Where
- Sanibel Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8 sec
- Geo
- 26.444, -82.107 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sanibel-island-fl-2007-e669e9
Part of a wave
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
- Sanibel Island, FL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 264 reports came from Florida in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.