UFOMYST
CaseCircle1989

Ft. Walton Beach, FL, USA

As a law enforcement officer I was dispatched to a UFO sighting near a military base.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-10-01
Where
Ft. Walton Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 min.
Geo
30.421, -86.617 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ft-walton-beach-fl-1989-b2467d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Ft. Walton Beach, FL shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Florida in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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