CaseSphere1981
Balboa (Panama Canal Zone), Panama Canal Zone
three of us were standing outside our lodge after meeting and a sound like a very large dynamo slowing down was heard. The three of us
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-06-01
- Where
- Balboa (Panama Canal Zone), Panama Canal Zone
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 8.948, -79.567 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-balboa-panama-canal-zone-1981-4ce972
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Balboa (Panama Canal Zone), Panama Canal Zone in the UFOMYST archive.
- Panama Canal Zone logged 1 sightings in 1981.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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