CaseLight2015
Panama City Beach, FL, USA
Square cluster of lights over beachfront
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- Panama City Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15+ minutes
- Geo
- 30.177, -85.805 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-panama-city-beach-fl-2015-f3e2e8
Wave
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
- One of 50 documented reports from Panama City Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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