Disk over Panama City, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We Spotted a small orange orb over the ocean, our first thought was it may be Mars, but the orb got bigger and it was able to move very fast- up down and all directions. We watched this for a few minutes and then the orb grew bigger and brighter and suddenly became 5 orbs, flying in a straight line. My son got out his phone to video the orbs, but they suddenly disappeared before he could record them.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160236). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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