UFOMYST
CaseCigar2006

Hilton Head, SC, USA

strange lights off south carolina coast

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-16
Where
Hilton Head, SC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
32.216, -80.753 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-hilton-head-sc-2006-b8b7c6
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

  • Hilton Head, SC shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from South Carolina in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.