Sanibel Island, FL, USA
This is an important amendment to my "A summary of 10 UFO sightings over 3-week period" filed yesterday, 7/15/13
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-14
- Where
- Sanibel Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 26.444, -82.107 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-sanibel-island-fl-2013-76351a
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 has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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