Marco Island, FL, USA
I was walking north on the beach on Marco Island when I looked up after I heard a loud plane. It was a grey colored single engined plan
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-30
- Where
- Marco Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 25.941, -81.718 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-marco-island-fl-2013-91956b
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
- Marco Island, FL shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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