Panama City Beach, FL, USA
large orange reddish light in the night sky moving across sky instantly
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-02
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30mins
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-panama-city-beach-fl-2006-f5d01e
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 50 reports logged in Panama City Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 219 Florida reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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