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CaseCigar2015

Columbia, SC, USA

I was leaving Columbia South Carolina and heading I 77 up to Charlotte. When I notice the surrounding of my car was lit up in a really

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-05-13
Where
Columbia, SC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
North I-77
Geo
34.001, -81.035 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-columbia-sc-2015-27d031
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…

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In context

  • Columbia, SC has 66 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 109 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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