UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Farallon (outside Panama City), Panama

red orange fireball across sky then making a 90 degree turn, moving fast again, then disappeared

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-02
Where
Farallon (outside Panama City), Panama
Shape
Fireball
Duration
one minute
Geo
8.357, -80.137 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-farallon-outside-panama-city-2008-d3ac9c
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

  • Farallon (outside Panama City), Panama shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Panama in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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