UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Panama City Beach, FL, USA

Round orange slow moving object that changed its shape into an upside down candy cane or J. No sound. Changed back to round shape and d

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-06
Where
Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
30.177, -85.805 · exact
Slug
changing-over-panama-city-beach-fl-2013-296861
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Panama City Beach, FL shows up 50 times across the archive.
  • 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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