Saint Stephen, SC, USA
6 bright beam lights in cigar form size of football field hovered for two 20 second round one minute after the other. After roughly 8 m
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-19
- Where
- Saint Stephen, SC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- (2) 20 second beams
- Geo
- 33.404, -79.922 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-saint-stephen-sc-2021-a655cb
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Saint Stephen, SC.
- This case is one of 41 South Carolina reports filed in 2021.
- Cigar craft made up 2.6% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.