CaseLight1968
Panama City Beach, FL, USA
A witness in Panama City Beach, Florida reported a light over the Gulf of Mexico resembling Venus at dusk, growing brighter as more lights appeared, during a four-hour watch in August 1968.
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (189 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-01
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-panama-city-beach-fl-1968-6b7bd9
In context
- One of 50 documented reports from Panama City Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 8 sightings in 1968.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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