CaseSphere1972
Panama City, FL, USA
A witness in Panama City, Florida reported a spherical object that lit up and went dark intermittently, moved fast and silently, and came close during a five-minute sighting in March 1972.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-03-15
- Where
- Panama City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 30.159, -85.660 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-panama-city-fl-1972-bd8820
In context
- Panama City, FL shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Florida in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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