UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

Rio Hato (Panama), Panama

Bright light on the sky

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-09
Where
Rio Hato (Panama), Panama
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 min. approx
Geo
8.379, -80.166 · exact
Slug
oval-over-rio-hato-panama-2004-aa0f6a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Rio Hato (Panama), Panama shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Panama in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.