Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Bright, round to oblong object. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a planet in the eastern morning sky?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-01-18
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-panama-city-beach-fl-2015-05b1cc
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
- This is one of 50 reports logged in Panama City Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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