CaseUnknown1997
Panama City, FL, USA
Looked like stars in the sky so far up/moveing fast
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-18
- Where
- Panama City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 30.159, -85.660 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-panama-city-fl-1997-09cba7
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Panama City, FL has 37 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 51 reports from Florida.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.