UFOMYST
CaseCircle1978

Panama, Panama

TWO OBJECTS MOVING AT IMPOSSIBLE SPEEDS THEN DISAPPEARED .

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-15
Where
Panama, Panama
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 mins
Geo
8.994, -79.520 · exact
Slug
circle-over-panama-1978-338024
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Panama, Panama shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Panama in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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