UFOMYST
CaseDisk2020

Panama City, SC, USA

We Spotted a small orange orb over the ocean, our first thought was it may be Mars, but the orb got bigger and it was able to move very

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-21
Where
Panama City, SC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
30.159, -85.660 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-panama-city-sc-2020-bb30bd
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…

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In context

  • Panama City, SC shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 116 reports came from South Carolina in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.