CaseLight1979
Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Five bright lights or glowing oval objects hovered over the horizon south of Panama City Beach, FL, during Memorial Day 1979.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-05-06
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-panama-city-beach-fl-1979-2ea755
In context
- This is one of 50 reports logged in Panama City Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 11 Florida reports filed in 1979.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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