CaseLight2009

Panama (in Pacific Ocean), Pacific Ocean

zig zagged light travelling upwards like a Z and then zoomed very very fast in a straight line across the sky

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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 (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-14
Where
Panama (in Pacific Ocean), Pacific Ocean
Shape
Light
Duration
cruise ship
Geo
8.994, -79.520 · fallback
Slug
light-over-panama-in-pacific-ocean-2009-75c5d2
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Panama (in Pacific Ocean), Pacific Ocean in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pacific Ocean logged 1 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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