Fort Myers, FL, USA
High altitude silver object visable 15 min hoovering slow sw trajectery early eve.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-03
- Where
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 26.622, -81.841 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fort-myers-fl-2006-6239b1
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Fort Myers, FL in May 2006 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Fort Myers, FL has 68 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 219 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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