CaseSphere2013

Ciudad de Panama (Panama), Panama

Orange sphere seen over Panama City, Panama (Canal Zone) 20 hs local time 2 witness

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-21
Where
Ciudad de Panama (Panama), Panama
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
8.994, -79.520 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-ciudad-de-panama-panama-2013-30988e
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

  • Ciudad de Panama (Panama), Panama shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Panama in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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