Off Panama City, Florida: Two metallic craft hover over Navy undersea research platform

At 2:00 p.m. on 15 July 1975, two brothers were fishing from a small boat 18 miles south-southwest of Panama City, Florida, about 200 feet from a US Navy undersea research platform standing on pilings 75–100 feet above the water. In the distance they spotted two metallic craft heading directly toward the platform from the south-southwest; the objects stopped and hovered about 200 feet above and adjacent to it. They appeared to be about 150 feet in length, circular from below and cigar-shaped from the side, with completely smooth surfaces, matte silver above the horizontal center line and matte purplish below. A few minutes later the objects departed, shooting upward at a 45-degree angle at an 'astounding' speed and shrinking to dot size in 1–2 seconds. Robert Powell estimated an average velocity of 24,240 mph and a final velocity of 48,480 mph. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.