CaseCircle1996
Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Facing the gulf of mexico we noticed a luminescent circular object appear out over the gulf. It was translucent and glowing
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-01-15
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 sec.
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-panama-city-beach-fl-1996-0b87c5
In context
- This is one of 50 reports logged in Panama City Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 50 Florida reports filed in 1996.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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